Motion Picture MP76-79
Administrative Information
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.
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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. |