Our Island Fortress (1940)

Full title reads: “Our Island Fortress - There’s A Land, A Dear Land“. VS Scenic shots from library of English countryside and coastal scenes, also scenes of typical provincial English town, Bob Danvers Walker gives commentary over, which starts in rhyme and then goes into prose, with voice of singer in background singing patriotic songs. The voiceover talks about the task of saving civilisation from barbarism. A series of coastal and field artillery guns are fired. The item ends with a shot of the sun setting over the sea. 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 than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont