London Scrapbook (1942)

Directed by

Eugeniusz Cękalski, Derrick De Marney

Genre

war film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

11 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A short wartime film shows the damage from German bombing raids on London. It also explains with humor how Londoners coped with the hardships of war for an American audience.

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What happens

London Scrapbook is a 1942 British short propaganda film directed by Derrick De Marney and Eugene Cekalski, and starring Bessie Love, Basil Radford and Leslie Mitchell. It shows the physical devastation that the Blitz caused to London, and humorously communicates the postwar struggles of Londoners to Americans. The film is preserved at the British Film Institute and was released on the compilation DVD The British Home Front at War: London Can Take It! from the Imperial War Museum. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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