Home Front - Blitz. Reel 3. 1940

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Untitled- Air Raids.
London streets after air raids. Home guards searching through rubble after a raid. Piccadilly Circus deserted, probably during an air raid alert. Posters around Eros advertise "War Bonds". CU of posters, lower Regent Street also deserted. Burlington Arcade with bomb damage.

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Cataloguer:
Mike
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
85445
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:27:49:00 / 01:33:20:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2977.04
Issue Date:
02/12/1940

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British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
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