Motion Picture MP76-79

Churchill the Man

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
1062 feet
Running Time
29 minutes 30 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Associated British - Pathe Productions
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

Biographical film about the life of Winston Churchill up to 1952. The film has a segment on Churchill's speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, March, 1946; the portion of Churchill's speech in which he uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" is not included.

Date(s)
ca.
1955

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
0:00   (Scenes of his home for title).
1:00   His mother and father and early life.
2:00   Boer War scenes and experiences.
3:15   Post-Boer War – enters politics – Home secretary.
4:15   First Lord of Admiralty and World War I.
6:15   Locarno Treaty scenes and 1920’s.
7:15   Early 1930’s - Hitler, etc.
8:15   World War II – Churchill enters #10 Downing St.
9:00   Dunkirk, May 1940.
9:15   Battle of Britain, September 1940.
9:45   Bombing of London, December 1940.
10:15   Miscellaneous battle scenes – sea and land and Churchill, troops and people.
13:15   U.S. enters war – Pearl Harbor, etc. More World War II scenes, especially North Africa.
15:00   Meeting with Russians – Yalta, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
17:00   “D-Day.”
18:30   War scenes.
20:00   Signing of surrender document – War ends in Europe.
22:45   Election – Churchill out of office.
23:45   Churchill as “retired” (including part of Westminster College speech). No mention of iron curtain.
24:45   Churchill back as Prime Minister, 1952.
26:45   Churchill as “Civilian” and again retired.
29:00   Credits.