The Battle of Britain began on August 8th, 1940, when the German Air Force tried to drive the English to their knees with a rain of bombs. Within ten months more than 50,000 bombs fell on London alone, plus thousands of incendiaries. The British shook their fists in defiance, took all that the Nazis could dish out, and, despite 30,000 casualties Londoners had the unquenchable spirit that triumphed over evil and sent Hitler to defeat. (blitz) London, England British convoys being attacked by the Nazis in the Atlantic Ocean. MS - Big anti-aircraft guns firing at the Nazi planes. MS - Buildings that were blown apart and on fire as a result of Nazi bombings. CUS - British children. Ground up - The explosions and a direct hit on a in the back ground. Evening shot, medium - Military fire wardens fighting the fires with hoses. Aerial shot - London in flames. 1,500 hundred fires were started by German bombs. Morning shot - The aftermath of the bombing of London by the Germans. CUS - Fire marshals, and a fast profile shot of Sir Winston Churchill over-looking the damage done by the German bombings. MCUS - Buses and cars burnt out and twisted steel left over from the inferno. CUS - Sir Winston Churchill walking and overlooking the damage suffered from the German bombings. CUS - British citizens showing thumbs up and smiling their survival of the German bombings.
Master 1487 - Tape 1 Excellent aerial shots of London Blitz, night (German Luftwaffe Air Force bombs London, England): burning buildings, smoke, fire, ground explosions, etc.
The Battle of Britain & the Blitz. TLS Luftwaffe bombers taking off from airfield. Wide MS British anti-aircraft gun spinning turret. MS bombs being dropped (cam mounted on bottom of bomber). Montage of nighttime explosions, London. Montage London, post-Blitz: smoldering ruins, firefighters squelching flames, refuges passing through rubble, general devastation, coffin being lowered into grave. Audio of Churchill's "Finest Hour" speech (excerpted).
Battle of Britain. MS's of Brits looking to the skies, digging shelters, stacking sandbags in preparation for Hitler's blitz on London. Tight LS's of Luftwaffe taking off. CU of an air raid alarm switch being flipped, then MS's of Londoners going underground for shelter. MS's and CU's of people sleeping in subway systems. Great of the Battle of Britain & London Blitz: LS's of bombs dropping, Allied artillery retaliating, mass fires and destruction.
Newsreel of artillery tests on a moving tank. Newsreel of London Blitz, firefighters struggling to put out flames both night and day; MS firefighter moving mannequin from rubble of house; great MS man removing head from Adolf Hitler mannequin. FDR laughing.
The Battle of Britain / London Blitz. Map of England. LSs Luftwaffe taking off, in flight. MSs RAF pilots recreating in quarters, playing pool, chess, piano until air raid summons them to duty. MS/CUs RAF communications operators at work. LSs Spitfire & Hurricane fighters in flight, fending off Nazi air advance; two Nazi planes are hit, another crashes into the Channel. MS British soldiers on look-out for air raid. MSs London citizens sleeping, knitting, etc, in subway (london underground) during raid. MSs raid lights probing sky. LS/MSs anti-aircraft ack-ack guns firing at night. LS/MSs burning buildings, London
Montage of English people sifting through rubble of bombed out villages, cities (aftermath of London Blitz).
London Blitz. Luftwaffe aircraft taking off, Heinkel He III bombers. Parliament buildings at dusk. British air raid sirens, search lights, anti-aircraft gun crews. German bombers, flashes in sky, silhouette St. Paul s, fires from incendiary bombs, firefighters, burning buildings in London. People sleeping in London Underground tube tunnel, moms and babies in shelter, group in shelter all looking up. British anti-aircraft artillery guns, day.
Montage drawing parallels of the Third Reich's totalitarian state to that of Maoist China. Buildings collapsing during the London Blitz; shots of Nazi banners, hysterical German crowds, Nazi soldiers goose-stepping. Adolf Hitler leaning out train car to shake people's hands. Weeping people. Hitler looking over map in a war room. Nazi flags; low angle of Hitler saluting.
Sir Winston Churchill touring rubble and damage of the London Blitz.
World War Two, London Blitz: GV building crumbling under smoky explosion. LS urban rubble shrouded in smoke. Night aerial of London in fire. Day GV destroyed building.
