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)
Production Details: Southern Railway Film Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Canadian Army (regiment/service)
French Army (regiment/service)
British Army, British Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
British Army, Home Guard (regiment/service)
British Army, Local Defence Volunteers1 (regiment/service)
Young Men's Christian Association (regiment/service)
SOUTHERN RAILWAY (regiment/service)
Keywords: destruction, British military - area: bomb (object name)
operations, British military - movement: train (object name)
operations, British military - movement: ship (object name)
operations, British military - withdrawal (object name)
operations, French military - withdrawal (object name)
prisoners of war, German - movement (object name)
refugees, French - movement (object name)
supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - assistance: Maid of Kent hospital ship (object name)
transport, British - rail (object name)
society, British - precautionary: blackout (object name)
society, British - precautionary: evacuees (object name)
society, British - precautionary: sentries (object name)
GB, England & Windsor, Berks (geography)
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK (geography)
Farnborough, Hampshire, England, UK (geography)
Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK (geography)
Folkestone, Kent, England, UK (geography)
Dover, Kent, England, UK (geography)
Margate, Kent, England, UK (geography)
GB, England & London, SE <Waterloo Station> (geography)
GB, England & London, SW <Victoria Station> (geography)
GB, England & London, EC <Cannon Street Station> (geography)
Deepdene, Surrey, England, UK (geography)
Richmond, Surrey, England, UK (geography)
Balcombe, Sussex, England, UK (geography)
Dunkerque, Nord, France (geography)