BRITAIN AND HER EMPIRE Reel 2 · Part 1

Description

Reel 1 shows street scenes, a horse-drawn carriage, harbor scenes, and the Colonial Office in London; maps of British possessions; sheep shearing, industrial and mining activities, and a session of parliament in Australia; dairying in New Zealand; wheat fields and a French community in Canada; diamond mining and closeups of natives and Dutch in South Africa; a textile factory, Hindus worshiping, and Gandhi in India; and British troops parading, air raid shelters, women in uniform, and British troops embarking in London, shows air raid spotters on the Channel coast, robot bombs diving, civilians scurrying for cover, explosions, and civil defense workers fighting fires, tending wounded, and digging in ruins. British women work on farms and in factories. Warships and merchant ships are launched. Foodstuffs are unloaded from a ship. Shows nurseries for children of working mothers. Crowds celebrate VE Day. Shows general scenes of postwar reconstruction.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Educational Films