Summary: A Home Guard officer in a village pub talks to his friends about his week at a Home Guard training school.
Description: Bernard, in Home Guard uniform, enters village pub and starts talking with his friends about his new role. After briefly describing the history and role of the Home Guard "it might make Hitler think twice". He then describes his activities at a training course (illustrated by flashbacks): parade, mock air raid attack, rifle grenade and machine gun practice, hand grenade procedure (trained by Spanish Civil War veteran), signalling and so on. He concludes by getting out his Home Guard notebook and quotes Shakespeare's King John: "This England never did, nor never shall lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, but when it first did help to wound itself, nought remains to rue if England to herself remains but true" ("Oi reckon that's about roight too"). Village Home Guard convenes and practises.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Strand (Production company)
Taylor, Donald19111966British film producer and director. (Production individual)
Taylor, Donald19111966British film producer and director. (Production individual)
Moffat, Ivan (Production individual)
Marlborough, Charles (Production individual)
Gordon, Michael (Production individual)
Rhind, Al (Production individual)
Miles, Bernard (Production individual)
Miles, Bernard (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Home Guard (regiment/service)
Keywords: recruitment, British military: Home Guard (object name)
training, British military - specialist: Home Guard (object name)
GB, England (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 735 ft; Running time: 8 mins
