BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWS No 1049, GLASGOW TENEMENTS WRECKED IN BLITZ

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Places:

  • Dunbartonshire
  • Glasgow

Subjects:

  • Transport
  • War

Genres:

  • Newsreel

Decade:

  • 1940s

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Title: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWS No 1049, GLASGOW TENEMENTS WRECKED IN BLITZ

Reference number: 2087

Date: 1941, March 20

Production company: [ British Paramount News]

Sound: mute

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.11 mins

Description: Un-issued news footage of the aftermath of the Clydebank Blitz. March 1941.

Made from material held by the IWM

Shotlist: [Un-issued British Paramount News footage of the aftermath of the Clydebank Blitz, March 1941]

Credits (.11) Gvs bomb damaged tenements in Clydebank. Rescue services and civil defence workers clearing the rubble. YMCA tea car and queue of civilian refugees. Buses take civilians away from damaged streets. Shots of rubble, shells of buildings, some still ablaze (1.18) Censored scenes. Devastation. Civilians, corner of Church Street. Tea car and shots of rescuers at work (2.29) [Blank] Scotland. Military leaders, possibly Polish, present medals to sailors on deck of warship (3.11)