Britain Gets Down To It (1947)

Full title reads: “Britain Gets Down To It“. Images of the names of Government Ministries are superimposed over a background of the Houses of Parliament. This signifies a Cabinet Reshuffle. Conduit Street, London. Sir Stafford Cripps, Economic Minister and Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade visit the Rolls Royce show room. CU Various close ups of Rolls Royce and Bentley cars. CU Wilson (with Moustache) and Cripps have details of the cars pointed out to them. CU the lavish fittings of one of the cars including a drawer full of tools which slides out of the front panel. CU Cripps at the wheel of a Rolls Royce. CU Pathe Cameraman Cedric Baynes operating a camera. At the mouth of the River Dee, near Chester, Cheshire 100 acres of Marshland are being transformed into a factory site. LS Aerial view of the reclaimed land showing the pipe which carries the water from the drained land two miles away. CU Dutch men, experienced in this type of work, putting on their clogs to go to work. LS