GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: RMY 60-3).

Synopsis

I. "African Troops In Madagascar." African troops disembark in order to protect Britain's sea-lines and to save the island "from being bartered to the enemy by the treachery of Vichy marionettes". Fake tom tom music accompanies a view of the troops on parade and then moving through the jungle on patrol.

II. "Our Roving Camera Reports. Wendell Willkie visits a tank repair shop in the Middle East. Churchill tanks with 6-pounders parade in Southern England. Lord Woolton visits RAF station to see that the quality of food is alright and is reassured. He receives praise for "still keeping us healthily fed".

III. "Proof Positive. RAF bomb damage filmed in Nazi-occupied France." "Germany has been promised an air offensive on an unprecedented scale against her war industry. The offensive has been scientifically planned." Experts look at reconnaissance photographs, then movie and still cameras are loaded into a Blenheim of 30 Squadron which takes off after Manchesters on a raid on the Goodrich tyre factory near Paris, "forced to work for the German war machine". The Blenheim flies over the Seine and then we see 'before and after' stills of the damage inflicted. Enemy film of bomb damage to factories (and civilian housing). Manchesters and Blenheims.

 

Titles

  • GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS
 

Technical Data

Year:
1942
Running Time:
8 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Sound
Footage:
721 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Production company
Gaumont British