Report From Britain By Jackie Cooper AKA People From Britain Reel 2 (1951)

Reel 2. Lamarr (sp?) King - Administrative Officer of . in Britain speaks to camera about American equipment helping to rebuild Britain. Good montage of industrial processes including: miners working underground, Battersea Power Station, quarry, dam building (possibly Loch Sloy), electricity pylons etc. People (mostly women) leaving a factory. Agriculture - combine harvester. Unloading cargo at docks. Industrial landscape. Men working in furnace. Man soldering. Woman working at a spinning machine. Imports and exports. Packing cases marked: “Lourenco Marques Via Lisbon“ and “N B Calcutta“. Men wheel cases on barrows out of warehouse. Loading cargo. Car (?) being lifted by winch. Houses of Parliament. Sir Stafford Cripps. BBC headquarters in Langham Place. He talks about export trade. Factory interior. Foundry. Electrical goods manufacturing. Man welding. Women packing a small product (possibly cosmetics). Women working presses. A toy lorry being wrapped in brown paper. Men fill
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