Air Raid Victim 1940

Star Item

Description

Full title reads: "Air Raid Victim".

London.

Shots of bombed house. ARP (Air Raid Precautions) wardens look over the damage.

VS of typical elderly London woman talking about her experience when her home was bombed. Good interview showing high morale of typical Londoner during...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21076
Sort Number:
40/070
Time in/Out:
01:06:18:00 / 01:07:54:00
Canister:
40/70
Film ID:
1055.07
Issue Date:
29/08/1940

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
Adrenaline seekers from the past have left an indelible mark on the Pathe archive. Some were so dangerous they even lost their lives. Here are 10 top daredevils.
daredevil
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
911
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
The Royal Tour

The Royal Tour

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth watch exercises by Air Raid Precautions officers.

Jerry Bombs At Random

Jerry Bombs At Random

A bombing raid on Dover leads to civilian casualties.

Air Raid Victims Funeral - 1940

Air Raid Victims Funeral - 1940

Funeral of the two air raid victims in 1940.

London Air Raid Victims

London Air Raid Victims

People salvaging possessions from their homes in South East London.

Palestine: RAF Victims Of The Egyptian Air Raid On Ramath David Air Base, Buried AKA Palestine: Burial Of RAF Dead

Palestine: RAF Victims Of The Egyptian Air Raid On Ramath David Air Base, Buried AKA Palestine: Burial Of RAF Dead

Various shots of Tel Aviv people taking measures to protect themselves from an Egyptian Air Force raid; a British RAF burial party buries victims of an air raid at Ramath David near Haifa.

Shelter Bombed

Shelter Bombed

Bombed shelter in London - rescue work in progress. 1941?

War And Society - Part 1 - The People's War

War And Society - Part 1 - The People's War

Series for schools about war - this episode covers home front activity during Second World War.

 

 

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
Death Row
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Buchenwald
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Churchill
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
Battle
Life before health and safety laws; men worked at huge heights, balancing on girders and cranes all in order to help build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
Transport_Inventions
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
Himmler