Summary: Shunter Joe Black heroically puts out a burning explosives truck. "Based on a true story."
Description: Joe Black, (whose job in a railway marshalling yard is to brake free-wheeling trucks) returns to the yard on his night off having seen flames after it has been bombed: he finds two of his colleagues with a stirrup pump attempting to stop the fire in a blazing load of wheat from spreading to the next truck, a load of explosives. Black goes to fetch an engine to pull the trucks apart: on his return the explosives truck has just began to burn. Black rides the truck while the engine pulls it to a trackside water pump, which (unlike the yard's fire fighting water supply) has escaped damage, and there puts the fire out. The next day he is seen back at normal work.
Alternative Title:
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:UKY 317
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1941-08
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Verity (Production company)
Munden, Max (Production individual)
Carr, James (Production individual)
Box, Sydney (Production individual)
Browne, Bernard G (Production individual)
Tanner, Peter (Production individual)
Rhind, Al (Production individual)
Munden, Max (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: destruction, British military - area: bomb (object name)
equipment, British civilian - damage control: water pump (object name)
propaganda, British - inspirational (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: 647 ft; Running time: 7 mins
