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Rare Second World War Footage of Bletchley Park Emerges

theregister.co.uk

141 pointssohkamyung17 comments

The actual film isn't linked from the article, but here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvVaFE5O3eY

That seems to be the norm in journalism these days. Link to ads instead of sources. Thanks for the link.

I wonder who shot the footage. It seems like they asked for something, in a playful way. Both the men and women seem amused, or even flirtatious. The woman at 1:27 is clearly flirting, and the women at 3:56 and 4:06 stick their tongues out. And a few of the men are winking.

Isn’t it linked in the article on the word “footage”? That’s what I see at least...

Yes, same video.

Oops, missed it because of the lighting I guess. Still, why put the mini-documentary inline and not the original? It was also linked from the mini-doc, but that's indirect.

The title "Rare Second World War Footage of Bletchley Park Emerges" isn't quite accurate. The footage is of Whaddon Hall, rather than Bletchley Park. Whaddon Hall was MI6, whereas Bletchley Park was GCHQ (GC&CS back then).

The title of the linked article uses the wording "Bletchley Park-linked" which seems more accurate!

Indeed. Ended up being a little disappointed after first excitedly following the links to the source video.

dang - the title should be updated.

I highly, highly recommend "The Code Book" by Simon Singh if you're interested in cryptography. It has a chapter on Bletchley Park and tells the stories of several of its cryptographers, including Alan Turing and the Enigma cipher.

An excellent and entertaining read! Highly recommended.

Looks like he has written two with that name, or is that just Amazon with two different versions?

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

And The Code Book: The Secrets Behind Codebreaking

Guessing the second one has more to do with Bletchley Park

I know the first one covers the Enigma, haven't heard of the second one before.

It looks like the second one is the young adult adaptation of the first one.

Oops, I didn't catch that when I posted. Hard to read small print on a phone. I'll pick up the first one!

The first one is the one I've read and recommend. I haven't seen the second one before.

That book has so much more than Bletchley Park. Buy it for that, and you will be amazed at how much you learn.

Whenever everyone can come out and play, I highly recommend a visit to Bletchley Park (conveniently located in Bletchley: https://bletchleypark.org.uk/), and, adjacent to it, The National Museum of Computing (https://www.tnmoc.org/).

check out the youtube comments, someone recognizes their grandfather. That would be a sweet gift, to see my family from that time.

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