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Summary: An impression of the many ways the war effort is carried on round the clock: "night no longer means rest for Great Britain".
Description: The work of many people continues, or only begins, after the conventional working day: brief shots recall the activities of nightfighter pilot (at standby); Observer Corps; Coastal and AA guns; fire guards at office building; National Fire Service; air raid wardens; Home Guard (a grocer shuts up shop and leaves for duty); factory night shift; bomber crews (take off); lorry drivers; farm workers (night ploughing); searchlight and sound detector units (a woman crew; an alert; AA gunfire, nightfighter); iron/steel foundry night shift; soldiers on night exercise; (midnight: factory canteen); coal miners; new shift, shipyards; (bomber crews, return); merchant shipping convoys; railways. Dawn breaks: day workers get up (land girl, bus conductress), day shift clocks on; the Home Guard returns to his grocery. The battle "will know no pause this side of victory".
Alternative Title:
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:COI 152
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1943-12
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
British Movietone News (Production company)
Sanger, Gerald (Production individual)
Perrin, Raymond (Production individual)
Mitchell, Leslie (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Home Guard (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Bomber Command (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, nightfighter pilots (regiment/service)
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) (regiment/service)
National Fire Service (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Observer Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: agriculture, British - arable: night ploughing (object name)
defences, British - emplacement (object name)
equipment, British military - fire control: searchlight (object name)
equipment, British military - surveillance: sound detector (object name)
industry, British - general (object name)
industry, British - primary: coal mining (object name)
operations, British maritime - routine: convoy (object name)
society, British - domestic (object name)
society, British - precautionary (object name)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 922 ft; Running time: 10 mins