Mr Wilkie Wants To Know 1941

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Title reads: "Mr Wilkie wants to know".

London.

Wendell Wilkie talks to local people in air raid shelter during a Blitz.

Natural sound. Various shots inside a municipal shelter (looks like Underground Station). The shelter is crowded with people on bunks. Wendell Wilkie enters...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37767
Sort Number:
41/010
Time in/Out:
01:03:14:00 / 01:04:25:00
Canister:
41/10
Film ID:
1069.03
Issue Date:
03/02/1941

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