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Workers at construction site in London, England. Steam shovel excavates. Timbers set for foundation. Builders at work.

A construction site in London. Cars parked on the road near the site. People stand near it. Workers work at the site. Shops in the background. A sign on a shop reads 'Camera Exchange'. Steam shovel crane lifts up earth. A man seated at the controls of the steam shovel digger. A man picks up earth with shovel. Bicyclists, streetcar or trolley, a bus, and several automobiles pass by during the work. Wooden timbers are seen in a pile, as the excavation progresses. Men set timbers as forms for a foundation. Two men shovel earth out from the hole, to a platform, above, where a third man shovels it to the side.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053800
Boys wearing gas masks and War Reserve Policemen in London, England.

London at the beginning of World War II. A poster pasted on a wall reads 'Gas masks'. A child sits on a pavement and puts on a mask. Two boys walk down the street with gas mask boxes on their backs. War reserve policemen wearing tin helmets look up in the sky.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053823
Sandbagged petrol stations and bumpers of cars painted white in London, England.

London in the beginning of World War II. A mechanic paints the bumper of a car. Civilians paint bumper backside of car with white paint for blackouts. Men stand near petrol stations. Cars arrive at the petrol stations. Men carry sandbags. Sandbagged petrol stations. Buildings in the background.

Date: 1939, August
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053825
Winston Churchill returns to London, England after his convalescence in Morocco during World War II.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill accompanied by Lady Clementine Churchill and daughter, Sarah (in uniform of Women's Auxiliary Air Force), arrives by train in London, after an absence of two months. He had fallen ill following the Tehran Conference and remained abroad to convalesce in Marrakesh, Morocco. A crowd of well-wishers fills the platform. He chats with British military officers and officials and correspondents.

Date: 1944
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059173
White Russian, Anna de Wolkoff, at work in her Haut couture Boutique in London, England.

The Haut couture Boutique of White Russian Anna de Wolkoff (aka Anna Nikolayevna Wolkova), daughter of Admiral Nikolai Wolkoff, the Imperial Russian Naval Attache in London, who remained there after the Bolshevik revolution. She pins underlayment fabric on a customer and then has her assistant bring a roll of dress fabric which de Wolkoff drapes and folds, to create a new gown for her customer. The assistant comments about having trouble finding matching fabrics. Anna De Wolkoff suggests a shop in Herald Square, where she used to go when she was a "matching girl." Three takes are repeated during this film. In the last one, the garment is beginning to take final shape. (Note: Anna de Wolkoff was arrested on 20 May 1940 and charged with violating the Official Secrets Act. She was tried, convicted,and sentenced, On 7 November 1940, to 10 years imprisonment for "attempting to assist the enemy.")

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063445
British Army and Navy soldiers load supplies on a ship and work at the dock during the dock strike in London, england.

Labor strike among dock workers in London stops food supply. The ships tied up at a dock. Aerial view of the ships at the dock. Cars parked in a line at the dock. British Army soldiers and Navy sailors pick up supplies and load them in a truck. The people crowd on a street. A man smokes a cigarette.he soldiers unload supplies.The soldiers at the dock load supplies in a ship. A net full of supplies is hooked and pulled up. A soldier at controls. The soldiers stand and drink at the dock. People gathered in large number during the dock worker strike.

Date: 1949, July 18
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069313