Australian Civil Defence Workers (1942)

Australian civil defence workers. Butchers take their aprons off and put on their uniforms, as do other tradesman. A man dictates a letter to his secretary then leaves for a parade. L/S as the camera pans across the men practising with bayonets, guns, Molotov cocktails and mortars. They parade and salute. A scientific instrument maker hands his card to someone as he works on one of the instruments. Various shots as they fix barbed wire etc. People walk along in a crowd and the camera fades to ANZACS (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) marching. 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 Paramo