This Was A Man Aka Tribute To Sir Winston Churchill (1965)

Title reads: “This was a man“. Intertitle: “In film spanning more than half a century we review life of Britain’s greatest son, Sir Winston Churchill“. Tribute to Churchill. C/U Churchill seated in chair. L/S Blenheim Palace, Churchill’s birthplace. Interior; visitors look at bed where Churchill was born. Library shots: street scene c. 1896. L/S King Edward VII walking out of lodge and mounting horse. M/S Churchill making speech as young man. Panning shot King George VI and Queen Mary on their silver jubilee. King Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) at cottage in Wales. Churchill inspecting home guard on horseguard’s parade in 1941. Shots of London during the Blitz. Churchill walking through rubble on tour of bomb site, AFS men work amongst debris. Churchill on warship with Lord Beaverbrook. L/S American war ship. Churchill on deck of warship with President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), Mr. Casey and others. A stationary train in remote part of Turkey. Interior: Churchill talking with Turkish Presi
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