Aberdeen's Black Friday - Devastation caused by an air raid on Aberdeen

A local topical film showing the impact of the first daylight air-raid on Aberdeen on July 12th 1940, known locally as "Black Friday".

The clip shows the damage caused to buildings and schools by the air raid, it shows people standing in the street with household furniture retrieved from damaged buildings as well as one of the German planes shot down during the attack.

Black and white, Silent

Length of clip: 4:32
Length of original film: 06:00

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Questions:

Why would anyone want to bomb Aberdeen?
What happened to German pilots shot down over Britain?
How would you feel if this was your home and your community?
Do you think the filmmakers have made a particular point of showing the damage to schools and nurseries?
Why was WWII sometimes called the first 'Total War'?

Activities:

History: Research Aberdeen's Black Friday on the internet and other air raids on Scotland such as the Clydebank blitz. Then research cities bombed by the British and Americans during the latter stages of the war. What was the human cost of this so called 'Total War'?

WWII: the Home Front / Art and Design: Make a blitz collage. You may want to dray inspiration from the pictures of Stanley Spencer and Pablo Picasso's Guernica. You might also want to use Moviemaker or iMovie to export individual frames from the WWII films in the Scotland on Screen collection.

English / Creative Writing: Pick one of the people featured in the footage and write an account of the raid and its aftermath from his or her perspective.

Record details

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Record ID:	007-000-000-049-C
Resource Rights Holder:	National Library of Scotland
Related Records:	Flicks of Aberdeen's Territorial Week Pathfinder Pack on Early Film and The Local Topical (Feature Resource)
Project Ref:	0238
Date:	1940
Genre:	Documentary, local topical, newsreel
Subject:	Geography, Europe, WWII: the Home Front, Community Involvement, History, Social History, Citizenship, Education, English, Creative Writing (Curriculum for Excellence)
Who:	Ernest Bromberg (filmmaker) Newscine, Aberdeen (cinema)
Where:	Aberdeen (streets)
Event:	World War II (Home Front)
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