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A Man Dumping Old gramophone records to Use for War Materials, 1942. Britain during the Second World War. 'One thing we were asked to do was save old gramophone discs - not to torture Hitler to death by playing them over to him, but for salvaging some ingredient or other [shellac] to help make something to throw at him'. From "Time To Remember - The End Of The Beginning", 1942 ( Reel 2); documentary film about events of 1942 and America's entry into the war.