BRITAIN AT WAR - DUPLICATE CUTS NO 2 [Main Title]

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  • Title: BRITAIN AT WAR - DUPLICATE CUTS NO 2 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 5167X-2
  • Other titles: ENGLAND AT WAR - OFFCUTS [Allocated Title] AMATEUR FILM BY ROSIE NEWMAN [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Kodachrome colour offcuts filmed by amateur camerawoman Rosie Newman and Kodacolour captions produced for Rosie Newman, all related to her 1942 film "England at War" (IWM ref MGH 5167) and the later version "Britain at War" (IWM ref MGH 5167).
  • Description: (2 ft colour - Kodachrome) caption "THE COLONEL ADDRESSES PROSPECTIVE N.C.O.'S". (12 ft colour - Kodachrome) Label "Duplicate Titles" caption "MR CHURCHILL'S WORDS? DO YOU REMEMBER", caption "ALL THEIR EARLY EQUIPMENT CAME FROM THE U.S.A.", caption "If INVASION comes" superimposed over a map of England, caption "Bren Carriers lead the attack" superimposed over a map of England, caption "A WELL KNOWN WEST-END SHOPPING CENTRE" caption "LEAVING HOME ONE MORNING I RECORDED THE DEVASTATION CAUSED BY THE HUNS", caption "THE PREVIOUS NIGHT'S FIRES CHECKED BY LONDON'S FIRE FIGHTERS". (28 ft colour - Kodachrome) caption "A NOVEL EXPERIENCE". Shot of Rosie Newman sitting in a Bren Carrier, Bordon, Hampshire 1-2 July 1941. Footage of London, probably April 1941 - men sorting through the remains of a bomb damaged house, one man using a pneumatic drill. Shot of damaged building. Shots of London shop fronts -"Building Centre", "Asprey", a "Hillman Sunbeam-Talbot" car show room, "Boots The Chemists". More footage of bomb damaged buildings. Brief view of "Hoopers & Co" shop front (coach builders). (91 ft B&W and colour - Kodachrome) Label "Last Dupe Cuts". View of wild flowers. Bren Carriers, lorry full of troops and a military ambulance driving up a country road towards the camera. Lorry pulling large artillery piece across a field. Bordon, Hampshire 1- 2 July 1941. Brief view of bomb-damaged house, probably London April 1941. Extremely brief black and white shot of two women in a kitchen. More scenes of bomb damage in London (probably April 1941), including damaged buildings, a bomb damaged street and a Fireman and an ARP (?) warden posing for the camera. Brief shot of four men carrying a man on a stretcher along a London street (probably Stretcher Party No 63, Westminster during a practice, London probably April 1941). Brief shot of Ickworth House and Gardens, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk including a long shot of three women in the gardens, two of whom are wearing gas masks (probably 1942). Black and white interior shots of a hospital ward, probably Rushbrooke Auxiliary Hospital, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 3 May 1942. Brief shots of a contingent of Indian (Sikh?) troops on parade. Panning shots of an unidentified small church and churchyard. Unidentified man and woman posing at the rear of a "Church Army Mobile Canteen for HM Forces Lorry". Two views of a lily pond. (14 ft colour - Kodachrome) Label "Dup Titles The Colonel addresses etc., Our Secret Weapons etc". Caption "THIS CITIZEN ARMY SPRINGS UP OVER-NIGHT FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE HOMELAND", caption "BREN CARRIERS LEAD THE ATTACK", caption "OUR SECRET WEAPON", caption "COMMANDOS COME IN TO BEING!" (12 ft colour - Kodachrome) Label "Dup England at War titles" Caption " ENGLAND AT WAR This Fortress built by nature.....", caption "BRITAIN AT WAR This Fortress built by nature..." both superimposed over a map of England. (4 ft colour - Kodachrome) Label "If invation (sic. invasion) comes". Caption "IF INVASION COMES", caption "Bren Carriers lead the attack".
  • Alternative Title: ENGLAND AT WAR - OFFCUTS [Allocated Title] AMATEUR FILM BY ROSIE NEWMAN [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: Colour (Kodachrome)
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  • Object_Number: MGH 5167X-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (MGH 5167X-02)
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 1941
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Newman, RosieBritish film-maker, "Britain at War" (Production individual) Newman, RosieBritish film-maker, "Britain at War" (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour (Kodachrome) Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 163 ft; Running time: 7 mins
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