Kids War Effort Aka Schoolboys Aid War Effort (1941)

Schoolboys aid war effort. Melbourne, Australia. Various shots as schoolboys make camouflage nets for the army, they weave the thick thread in and out. One boy bounces on a net held by other boys to test the strength. The camera pans across boys at an orphanage making dummy hand grenades with sand instead of explosives for practise purposes. M/S of the bags in a pile. M/S of the boys gathered around a caricature of Adolf Hitler, they pick up the bags and pelt him with them. 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 Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews co