EVACUATION OF CHILDREN [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: EVACUATION OF CHILDREN [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BTF 203
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Lines of well dressed boys and girls with adults outside station. Girls with labels and boaters boarding train, waving from train. Waiting boys and girls on platform (officials' armbands marked "Southend"). Children inside carriages, eating sandwiches etc. II. Train full of children pulling out, children waving. Children with baggage and some adults at country station. Children on bus ("Mansfield District"). III. Train arriving with children. Various shots of children on platform, London Transport buses. IV. Man with microphone talking to children. V. Crowds of children with assorted baggage. Boarding buses and departing (St Pancras or Euston?).
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: BTF 203
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (BTF 203)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1939
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: London Midland and Scottish Railway Film Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: London Midland and Scottish Railway (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: buildings, British - commercial: railway station (object name) society, British - sustenance (object name) society, British - precautionary: evacuees (object name) transport, British civilian - bus (object name) transport, British civilian - rail (object name) Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK (geography) Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK (geography) North-West London, England, UK (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 764 ft; Running time: 8 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BTF 203

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