| BRITAIN'S EFFORT Lengthy, interesting animated film showing Britain's effort against enemy in First World War. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6277 | |
| Catalog #: | 527102 | |
| Clip Number: | 527102-4 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 499 E | |
| Timecode: | 01:24:33 - 01:27:47 | |
| Location: | ||
| Year Shot: | 1917 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMATION: Cel/Cartoon WORLD WAR ONE, GENERAL: Propaganda | |
| Description: | 24.33 Fashionable woman with a lap dog buying fabric in a shop. The dog becomes a shell and she becomes a munitions worker in a factory. A single white grain shows women war workers in 1914; becomes massive mound of grains which is formed into shape, then fades into drawing of woman munitions worker with hand to brow in 1917. She smiles. More animation showing increase in shells. Shells moving across map of Britain and into France while John Bull looks on; he is patted on shoulder by David Lloyd George. Ship at sea with searchlight. St Paul's Cathedral in silhouette. Pyramids in Egypt - scale is shown by superimposing St Paul's on top of a single pyramid. Medical and military supplies fill the space occupied by the pyramid. 1917 and the piles of supplies are growing. Shipbuilder in 1914 sits smoking a pipe. A man gives him a mallet. Single boat launched in 1914. Much larger ship launched in 1917. | |
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