Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Home Guard Defends the City
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 12 / 12
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Home Guard Exercises. DESCRIPTION: The heavily bombed City of London is the setting for a Home Guard training exercise. SHOTLIST: Various shots of the mock fighting in the City of London, against the Canadians. Red Cross nurses tend the ‘wounded’ amongst the bombed buildings. Fairly good shots of street fighting. Bren Carriers and lorries were also used.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Women; War damage; Civil defence; Military
- Footage sources
- Great Britain
- Card file number
- 40917
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 47
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Home Guard Defends the City', British Movietone News Issue No. 630A, 3 Jul 1941. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/11783 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)