Help For Russia
DVD Black & White Silent 1941 8:45
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Summary: A demonstration for Bermondsey Aid for Russia week.
Title number: 21122
LSA ID: LSA/27748
Description: 00:17 - intertitle "A Pictorial Record of Bermondsey's Great Parade, Sunday November 9th 1941". 00:36 intertitle: 'The Home guard'. 00:45 The film opens with the Home guard marching down the road; followed by Civil Defence. 02:38 intertitle 'Civil Defence'. This is followed by tableaux created by the Civil Defence and others. 03:57 'Tableaux by Civil Defence and others'. the first is a float with someone dressed as Winston Churchill. Tableaux of bombed out house on float. Followed by float for Bermondsey 'Aid for Russia Week - your money means death to Nazism'. More floats, including 'Hell for Leather Help for russia' (05:23); a coffin with Nazi flag on it. A hanging effigy of hitler with poster saying 'British-Soviet Unity will finish him off!' 06:04 Central Baths tableau has nurses on it. Air Training Corps follow. 07:13 intertitle 'Air Training Corps' followed by march. 07:36 intertitle 'In the Park'. The film ends at a part with a speech from an unknown speaker. Intertitle 'The End'.
Credits: Bermondsey Borough Council (Filmmaker)
Further information: Digitised by from film held by BFI.
Keywords: Bermondsey; World War Two; Socialism; Anti-fascism
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