British troops on the battlefields and in the trenches of World War I. The Royal Family (King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret) in formal appearance on a balcony. Scenes of World War II. London ablaze in the Blitz air attack by Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany. Firefighters direct water hoses on burning buildings. Funerals for dead at Coventry who were killed in the blitz. Destroyed homes in London and destroyed industry throughout Britain from blitzkrieg. A British bus upended and leaning against a building destroyed by the blitz. Many graves in British Military Cemetery. British contributions to science and technology. An early revolving radar antenna. Early jet propulsion work yielding jet powered British V-Bomber aircraft in flight. A doctor administers penicillin shot to a child patient in a doctor's office. An atomic bomb test with mushroom cloud rising.
"Get your new ration books and identity cards here" seen written on a sign. British civilians line up to obtain new post-war ration books, after the end of World War 2. Women shopping for rationed food. British ships idle in ports as exports wane. View of New York harbor with tugs and barges and Manhattan skyline and skyscrapers in background. Woman holding poster advertising First International Auto Show (held from February 5-10, 1949, at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory, Twenty-fifth Street and Lexington Avenue, in New York City), including European cars to be shown in New York City. British cars in their first car show. One of the cars shown is the 1948 Ghost Minx with two women seated inside it. A 1948 Jaguar convertible is also shown. Communist parades in Europe and Asia. Start of Marshall Plan to help Europe rebuild after the war. Newspaper shows President Truman signing Foreign Aid Bill (led to Marshall Plan).
Lifestyle of British people in early 1950s. Group of British coal miners. Several British businessmen. British residential neighborhoods post World War 2 both in cities and in outlying neighborhoods. British working men in hats and coats walking to or from work. Well-to-do neighborhood. Factory workers producing heavy equipment. British Automobile manufacturing factory with workers assembling cars. A Bentley automobile being loaded on a ship. Two U.S. Airmen sightseeing in London view traffic on streets with cars and lorries, double-decker buses, and pedestrians. View of diverse British workers, both men and women, walking on a bridge to or from work as double decker buses and other vehicles pass by on the road.
Home life of British steel worker. The man is gardening. His wife comes out of their house and talks to him. The man and woman enter the house. The man seated with his family at dinner. A photograph of the man's nephew, who is a soldier in Malaya. British soldiers in Malaya line up and receive their pay at a pay window. U.S. airmen, stationed in Britain, receiving their pay in pounds, Sterling. U.S. soldiers shopping in the UK.
In a training film for American airmen in the early 1950s, actor Larry Hagman plays role of a U.S. Airman being entertained as guest in a British home, where differences in daily life are discussed. British family seated in living room and having tea with the American military airman, and tending a fireplace. Examples of notable British manufacturing. A British Canberra jet bomber taking off. A class A4 streamlined 4-6-2 British steam locomotive, bearing British Railways number 60027 (Named Kingfisher and built at Doncaster Works). Pistons moving on large British marine engine. Fabric printing and manufacture.
British steel worker walks to work on Bashley Road, North Acton, London. Views of steel mills in Midlands. A ship under construction in Glasgow, Scotland. Wide, elevated view of city streets and buildings of Edinburgh, Scotland. Steel worker visits a Pub after the day's work. Men in the Mother Shipton Pub (possibly 1 Malden Road, Kentish Town, London NW5). Patrons drink beer and play darts. Bartender pours a cask ale from a tap. U.S. Air Force Non-Commissioned Officers seated at a table in the pub. One of them asks dart players if he can try. They assent and he throws several darts fairly skillfully, meeting with their approval. These scenes are followed by an Instructive narrative about the British political system accompanied by illustrated diagrams. Scenes include the floor of the House of Commons during session.
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