Description: I. "African Troops In Madagascar." African troops disembark in order to protect Britain's sea-lines and to save the island "from being bartered to the enemy by the treachery of Vichy marionettes". Fake tom tom music accompanies a view of the troops on parade and then moving through the jungle on patrol.
II. "Our Roving Camera Reports. Wendell Willkie visits a tank repair shop in the Middle East. Churchill tanks with 6-pounders parade in Southern England. Lord Woolton visits RAF station to see that the quality of food is alright and is reassured. He receives praise for "still keeping us healthily fed".
III. "Proof Positive. RAF bomb damage filmed in Nazi-occupied France." "Germany has been promised an air offensive on an unprecedented scale against her war industry. The offensive has been scientifically planned." Experts look at reconnaissance photographs, then movie and still cameras are loaded into a Blenheim of 30 Squadron which takes off after Manchesters on a raid on the Goodrich tyre factory near Paris, "forced to work for the German war machine". The Blenheim flies over the Seine and then we see 'before and after' stills of the damage inflicted. Enemy film of bomb damage to factories (and civilian housing). Manchesters and Blenheims.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:RMY 60-3
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1942-05
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gaumont British (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Willkie, Wendell Lewis (person)
Marquis, Frederick James (1st Earl of Woolton) (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
[GB.A & African personnel ?] (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, Allied military - sortie: jungle patrol (object name)
armour, British - tank: Churchill (object name)
operations, British military - maintenance: armour (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Avro Manchester (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Blenheim (object name)
destruction, French military - aimed: bomb (object name)
Madagascar (geography)
GB, England (geography)
Libya (?) (geography)
Goodrich Tyre Factory, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography)
Seine (River), France (geography)
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: 721 ft; Running time: 8 mins
