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Christmas During World War Two in the U.K. Archive film 1085755

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1085755 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ Christmas during the second world war in England 1940s. Film showing how the Xmas spirit remained even during troubled times. Gun turret. Barrage balloon being inflated in park. View looking down on central London traffic going around a corner. Bomb damaged John Lewis store, Oxford Street? Traffic warden standing in road as London buses drive past. Stall set up on footpath or pavement, with battery operated military toys for sale; a crowd has formed to see the toys. Toy tank moves along the pavement. Old man wearing overcoat and flat cap demonstrates his moving toys and makes a sale, pocketing the coins. Sign in shop window promoting safety during shopping, spotters on the roof! Church, vicar walks down steps where a sign is pointing to the ARP shelter. Church organist playing. Altar boys light candles. Preparation for service. Two horse team ploughing a field in the countryside. Children carol singing in village. Child blows on his cold hands. Girl leafs through carol sheets and they start a new song. View up to church steeple. Church service with full pews. Candles carried down aisle. Congregation is seated. Woman in congregation crosses herself. Incense burner is lit. Close ups of adult faces in the audience. Priest at altar. Congregation sing hymns. A decorated Christmas tree is in the church. Exterior of the church showing bomb damage. Priest at the sacristy chants. Congregation singing. Postman props his push bike against house and delivers a parcel to the woman who opens the door. He rides off down the quiet village street on his bicycle. Inside the house, the woman places the parcel on a table. She cuts the string around the box and unwraps the brown paper before taking the present to an old man seated beside the open fire, reading his paper. Contents of the box are shown with gift card, a present of a golliwog and panda toy. Back to mass in the church service with congregation standing and the servers exiting the church holding their candlesticks, followed by the priest. Countryside views, large trees line a riverbank. Early morning. Five bar gate into field. Quiet village with ford across the road in the foreground. Church yard. Panning views of village houses beside the river. Pub sign, in the shape of a Bell. The Bell. Accordion player plays. Men in flat caps playing cards in the pub. Girl serves customer at bar. Customer is wearing a military uniform and the lad gives the barmaid a kiss on the cheek. Merry Christmas. Xmas decorations hang from the rafters. Christmas tree in a house, children are putting christmas crackers on the tree while a woman plays the piano. Christmas morning at home. Woman plays a waltz on the piano and young boy blows up a balloon and the tree continues to be decorated by a group of children. A hand written sign welcomes evacuee guests to the Christmas party. Dark quiet street with view up the road. A hand turns the dial on a radio or transistor. Children getting ready. Young girls seated on lounge room floor in front of grandad sitting in his armchair. Three young girls of ever decreasing age each get a kiss from grandpa and a hand shake. Children are walked upstairs in their pyjamas and jump into their beds. Bedroom is decorated in decorations and woman tucks them in. Little boy brushes his teeth. View of the ceiling covered in tinsel and Xmas garlands. Three girls say their prayers kneeling beside the bed. Older woman wearing a hat, sits and knits. Three girls all climb into the same double brass bed and are tucked in with a smile. Mother goes downstairs in dark. Children sleeping. Church with pews being rearranged by many people. Father gives directions. Teenagers sitting on floor reading books. Woman still knitting. Girls asleep in bed as woman hangs stockings up on Christmas eve and places gifts on the bed for them. The gollywog and panda soft toy are laid beside them as the sleep. Boy asleep with a present at the end of his bed. People sleeping on the floor side by side in the church? Priest praying in front of Christ statue. Huntley Film Archives is a film library holding tens of thousands of films. The large majority of the films are documentaries. Films cover a wide range of subjects and production dates range from the 1890’s to the 2020’s. As with all libraries we make no judgement on the content of our holdings and make them available for educational purposes for all to see. Films may have content or express opinions some may think inappropriate or offensive, but it is not the work of a library to censor educational resources. Films should be viewed with historical objectivity and within a context relevant to the times in which they were produced