Your Home As An Air Raid Shelter 1940

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Full title reads: "Your Home As An Air Raid Shelter".

LS of German bombers flying overhead.

VS of people clearing up wreckage after bombing raid.

MS Man and his family reading newspaper which is spread out on table in their lounge.

GV Ext. London Post Office.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40228
Sort Number:
40/081
Time in/Out:
01:05:12:00 / 01:07:14:00
Canister:
40/81
Film ID:
1164.07
Issue Date:
07/10/1940

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