THEY FIGHT BY NIGHT [Main Title]

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  • Title: THEY FIGHT BY NIGHT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 152
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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".
  • 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
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Remarks: quite good.
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    COI 152

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