Map Making By . Issue Title - Quite So! (1943)

Map making by . (Women’s Voluntary Service) Ladies make cloth maps for the army. Location of events unknown. Aerial view of what looks like the countryside. M/S of two girls from the Women’s Voluntary Service standing by the “countryside“ which turns out to be a painted hessian mat. Various shots of ladies at sewing machines, others hand stitch cloth to makes trees and hedges. C/U of a lady working on a woolly wood. Various shots as they use real wood to make model houses, they are shaped and painted. M/S of woman sewing a coppice. M/S as the map is painted in sections. The ladies lay the houses out and paint on train tracks. Aerial view of the map. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more