Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell. British Movietone News Presents: Britain’s Three Years
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- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell. British Movietone News Presents
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- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Review of the War. DESCRIPTION: Chapter I - Britain, fulfils her pledge and stakes her life in the cause of Freedom and honour. Chapter II - Britain, virtually alone, holds on against appalling odds, undaunted. Chapter III - Britain, now with powerful allies, clears the way for the offensive phase. Britain is justly proud of her record in these first three years and, as 1943 opens a new chapter, she looks to the future - confident, united, resolute. SHOTLIST: Key scenes. Workers leave factory; various, mixes of pre-war scenes such as racing, football etc. Mix to Hitler speaks into mike. Elevated shots of Nuremberg Rally, German planes in formation, tanks, soldiers through streets. CU siren giving warning. Map of Europe. Three battleships into camera; Spitfires in formation. BEF Embark. Ships under way; map of Europe, cut-in Nuremberg Rally. How Europe was occupied shown by map. Small craft of all types leave for Dunkirk, Dunkirk beaches; Hitler & Petain at signing Armistice at Compiegne. Dover cliffs, as Churchill talks about "We shall fight in the streets, towns, villages, cities etc" also LDV train, rifle practice, hand grenade throwing, etc. Spitfires in formation. German plane crashing; several shots of wrecked German planes. Few of the RAF pilots & CUs. London blitzes at night. Convoy dive bombed; tanks in Middle East into camera & SV. Italian prisoners brought in & pram (equipment) soldier holds up a jerry. Men feeding furnaces, shots of various machinery. Map of Europe, showing our sea lanes. German attack in East (Russia). Tanks, artillery firing, troops advance motorised cavalry over fields (Churchill speaking) about our Allies. Railway shot of tanks for Russia. Pearl Harbour, and damage (Churchill) says "What sort of people do they think we are". Machinery, shell making, tank making, etc. Bostons in formation, bombs drop. Aerial of target. Lancasters in flight. Map of Europe (part) and Africa, shows our sea lanes. Malta ruins and pan. Shot of Crusader tanks, North African convoy under way. Shot of Destroyer. Landings. US troops into camera up beach, carrying US flag. Grants and Shermans in Middle East attacking, followed up by infantry. Germans retreating in lorries. Italians running. Heading of papers ‘Genoa Raid’. Lancaster take off. Aerial shots of Genoa burning. Map of Europe arrows all pointing to Germany fade into Churchill CU. Then various mixes of all types of machinery, finishing up with workers leaving factories. Shot of flying debris after building is hit in attack on Russia. Extra Scenes - Good CU of Churchill. Workers come out of factories. Lancaster on tarmac. Hun tanks in field. CU of an Air Raid Siren (silent). Various shots of machinery being operated by girls and men. Shot of Malta ruins as seen from sea. Aerial shot of Malta. Home Guards patrolling cliffs. Home Guard being inspected. Hitler raving (gesticulating shots). A sound lavender of Nazi shelling convoy in channel - good shot of convoy steaming along - sailor signalling - officer looking through binoculars. This was put in can numbered as this story but has been filed with CARD 39604 (the neg, of "Convoy Shelled" also filed with original No 39604. In extra scenes an excellent shot of bren carriers in desert with the rising sun as a background. The following are in Can 7505: Ships at sea. Playing hose onto burning building. ? Mass of captured Italian guns. Shot of furnace and shell cap, being turned in lathe. Naval launches go through rough sea. Stacks of shells. Shot of ship at sea. Captain of ship looks through binoculars. Supplies loaded onto ship. Girls & men work in aircraft factory. Men fit caps onto shells. GS Halifax on runway. Ship loaded with boxes of beans. Aerial of docks. Interior shots of Hall in America. packed with people, who give ‘V’ sign and carry flags of all nations at the back of the hall, are 3 posters of Churchill, Stalin & Roosevelt. Stirling in flight. Warships in line ahead. Troops disembark. Hitler and Petain sign pact in railway carriage. Shot of Cliffs of Dover. CUs of pilots. Aerial of London blitz at night - building burning. Bren-carrier over desert. Line of fuselages in aircraft factory. Aircraft engine parts turned on lathe. Convoy at sea. GS German troops run through smoke. Blazing ship sinking. German Storm Troopers on parade carry Nazi banners. Shot of scrap heap. Bren carrier over desert. Hurricane landing. Man in LDV lookout for paratroops. Hitler and Goering inspecting German troops. Troops on beaches at Dunkirk. Troops embarking. Hundreds of Nazi flags. Hitler salute at march past. Shot of Mr & Mrs Churchill. Shot of Hitler making speech. Shot of troops goose-stepping. Special Close-ups For Review Of The War - CARD 43194 Close-ups of face of Big Ben & also of Air Raid Siren. REVIEW OF THE YEAR TAPE - BMN 353 TIMECODE IN: 00:01:00:00 OUT: 00:12:00:18
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- Sport; Horse racing; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Ships and boats; Vehicles; Displays; Women; Weather; Environment; Weapons; Aviation; Foreign relations; Railways; Fires; Industry and manufacture; Ceremonies; Newspapers; Foreign aid; War damage; Prisoners of war; Civil defence; Occupied territories; Evacuees; Navy; Military; Scenery and travel; Newsreels
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- 43216
- Credits:
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- John W. Cotter
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 687
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