Summary:Compilation film using Southern Railway footage from 1939-1940 illustrating the early war years.
Description:(SR reference numbers indicate source of material - see SR negative register)
Reel 1 (769 ft): "Evacuation" - Children at Cannon Street (MH/62,62A), Children at Richmond (?) (CH/44(?)); "Precautionary" - Sentries at Balcombe Tunnel (CH/29); "Communication" - Despatch riders (MH/94,93); "Blackout" - Painting out carriage window, changing bulbs (MH/1), Hoods on guards' lamps (MH/13) Guard with hooded lamp (MH/16); "Information" - Writing emergency signs (MH/3,4), Emergency posters in station (MH/33), Passengers consulting signs, Waterloo (MH/34); "Conscription" - Civilians preparing to depart at Waterloo (?); "Hitler Invades" - Emergency cancellation signs (MH/44); "B.E.F." - Troops at Waterloo (1st shot) (CH/32), Troops preparing to leave at Waterloo (MH/45,44,3,?)
Reel 2 (825 ft): "B.E.F." (continued) - Troop train arriving, Southampton (MH/19), Troops at station (Southampton ?) (?), Troops marching into docks (?) Troops boarding ship (MH/19), Ship departing (CH/7); "Supply" - Guns (MH/32), Trucks (CH/5), Armoured cars (CH/10), Petrol cans (MH/27), Parts of huts (MH/30), Chicken wire, shovels, pick heads (CH/2), Packing cases (CH/38), Stores (?); "First Canadians..." - Canadians arriving at Aldershot and Farnborough (MH/15); "Leave" - B.E.F. arriving on leave (MH/17), B.E.F. on train (MH/16), B.E.F. arriving Victoria (MH/12); "Welfare" - YMCA Waterloo sign (MH/34), Scenes at Waterloo YMCA (MH/16); "Nature's War" - Landslide between Folkestone and Dover (MH/6), Clearing landslide (MH/11); "All Clear" - Landslide cleared (MH/19); "Winter 1939-1940" (No film after title)
Reel 3 (953 ft): "Dunkirk" - Dunkirk evacuation and arrival at ports (Newsreel); "Truly the Cinque Ports" - Troops from Dunkirk (1st shot) (Newsreel), Troops at Dover (MH/54), French troops at Margate and Dover (MH/52,53), Troops from Dunkirk (Newsreel), Troops from Dunkirk on trains (MH/50,49); "Cross Channel Packets" - Maid of Kent hospital ship (MH/29), Docks (?); "Civilian Casualties..." - Patients from Margate arriving at Windsor (MH/73); "Later France Capitulates" - Boats arriving, British troops (MH/65), French sailors etc (MH/66-70); "Refugees" - French sailors etc (MH/70,72?,66-70), Boats at docks (?)
Reel 4 (827 ft): "Prisoners" - German prisoners at Dover (MH/51); "5th Column" - Aliens leaving Waterloo for internment (MH/47); "Invasion?..." - Removing street signs (MH/61), Removing signal box name (MH/58), Painting out station name (MH/60); "LDV embraces all" - LDV training in GPO yard (MH/64,63); "Chief officer's help" - LDV training (?); "Become Home Guard" - Home Guard training, Deepdene (MH/92); "Minister of Transport inspects" - Colonel Brabazon inspecting Home Guard (MH/107); "With the Army" - Home Guard exercises (?)
Reel 5 (610 ft): "Gallantry not confined..." - Newspaper cuttings on railway heroes (MH/111), Bomb blasted train (CH/60); "Enemy Action" - Bomb damage to trains, stations etc (MH/98,87,96); (3 items unidentified); "The Civilian not forgotten" - Old Waterloo and City stock at Waterloo (MH/104), New Waterloo and City stock arriving and on lift (MH/105,105A); (No end title)
