| THANK YOU FOR YOUR LETTERS MARJORIE ANDERSON | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7105 |
| Catalog #: | 5268 | |
| Clip Number: | 5268-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NP 39 | |
| Timecode: | 01:54:15 - 01:57:52 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1945 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/RADIO: Production LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London MILITARY: Air Force, British (RAF) WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: Entertainment | |
| Description: | Marjorie Anderson answers some requests from servicemen overseas as she tours London. M/S of Marjorie Anderson speaking into a B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Company / Corporation) microphone. M/S of soldiers listening overseas. She thanks them for their letters asking for news of home, then goes on a tour of various "corners of London" for them. M/S as she watches the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. She goes for a ride in a Growler (old horse cab) to St. James's Park. She gets out and says goodbye to Tom the driver. She walks in the park and finds a special tree with the initials of a sailor and his sweetheart engraved in it. Various shots of Marjorie looking at people feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. She buys a posy of primroses from a flower seller. Camera pans across soldiers sat relaxing on the grass. Various shots of blitz damage where trees and flowers have grown up in the wasteland. M/S of Marjorie looking over the Embankment, she throws a pebble into the Thames for a captain who says it will "bring me back someday to England". C/U of Marjorie looking out over the river. | |
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