Summary: The early training of Army recruits: ostensibly an information film, but with an obvious recruiting intention as well.
Description: Film shows: medical inspection; recruits draw kit; drill and weapons training (film intercutting drill and combat exercise seeks to demonstrate practical value of pure drill); pay parade; PT and sport; food; relaxation in the NAAFI. Commentary talks throughout of 'trenches' etc; also full of praise for the Bren gun. Emphasis on the concern of 'Today's Army' for the physical and mental well-being of the soldier (eg approachability of officers etc; the British army is not a military machine.)
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
British Movietone News (Production company)
Sanger, Gerald (Production individual)
Mitchell, Leslie (Production cast)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (regiment/service)
Keywords: ceremonies, British - customary: pay parade (object name)
medical, British military - preventative: medical inspection (object name)
recreation, British military - sport: PT (object name)
recruitment, British: Army (object name)
society, British military - domestic (object name)
society, British military - sustenance (object name)
training, British military (object name)
weapons, British - gun [AA]: Bren (object name)
GB, England (geography)
propaganda (concept)
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: 880 ft; Running time: 10 mins
