LONDON’S REPLY.
TO GERMAN CLAIMS. ACTUAL SCENES OF CITY. Screening at to-morrow’s sessions with the ‘"Balalaika” programme at St. James Theatre is an actual pictorial record, made by a neutral observer of a tour through London on August 23, just after German broadcasts had asserted that- the city was a mass of ruins and the morale of the people was seriously upset. The film was posted in London on September 5 and travelled by air across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans making the journey at a rate of over 1000 miles a day.
The camera takes the audience oh a tour of London on August 23, 1940. Up and down the streets goes a bus with a camera at the window. All the famous landmarks of London are shown in a complete state of preservation. The people are going about their business in the ordinary way. There are sandbags and air-raid shelters; but otherwise little is changed. Of course there are some scenes of damage, but the people are shown taking it all cheerfully. The Management of the St. James advise that owing to the film being rushed through the country as quickly as possible the film will be shown at Saturday matinee and evening performance only.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 6, 18 October 1940, Page 4
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