Summary: 'Ripley' of the Sunday Express is collecting facts in an interview with a spokesman of the Red Cross/Saint John War Organisation.
Description: The spokesman's answers are illustrated by actuality film (refugees - first aid for air raid victims - convalescent homes - evacuee children - stores and supplies, warehouse scenes - clothing - size of the organisation but continuing concern, in spite of size, for individual cases: visiting sick, international tracing of missing persons - care for the physical and mental well-being of prisoners of war) and 'Ripley' (whose face is never shown) illustrates 4 facts with his 'Believe it or not' style cartoons: the organisation's 300,000 workers at outbreak of war ("Wembley Stadium filled 3 times"); the amount of supplies handled ("a train 250 miles long"); the gifts of wool and clothing ("213,000 sheep"); Prisoners of War taking courses of study and examinations in POW camps ("Preparing for after the War").
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:UKY 349
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1942
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Order of Saint John War Organisation (Production sponsor)
British Red Cross Society (Production sponsor)
Public Relationship Films (Production company)
Massingham, Richard (Production individual)
Wallace, Lewis Grant (Production individual)
Wallace, Lewis Grant (Production individual)
Strasser, Alex (Production individual)
Ripley, of 'Sunday Express (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Red Cross (regiment/service)
Order of Saint John War Organisation (regiment/service)
Keywords: journalism and record, British - press: Ripley's Believe It Or Not (object name)
propaganda, British - inspirational (object name)
society, British - charity (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: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 15 mins
