Title:DAD'S ARMY AS I SAW IT (donor title) [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 699
Other titles:TWENTY-NINTH BATTALION HOME GUARD (BURNLEY) THEIR TRAINING AND RECREATION [Alternative Title]
Summary: Unique colour footage of a Home Guard unit training and joking together, the visit of the King and Queen to Burnley, public displays by military units and shots from the Burnley War Savings Campaign.
Description: This film, part edited with titles, taken by a local professional photographer, features hilarious material of the Home Guard training with rifles and First World War machine guns, ambushing vehicles, using Smith guns and mortars, having a pillow fight and demonstrating ludicrous forms of camouflage. There are shots of the King and Queen visiting Burnley during the War and being met by the Mayor. There are shots of military units parading - the Home Guard, the three services, women services and the only known colour footage of American GIs in England. There are shots of the local War Savings Campaign headed by local dignitaries.
Alternative Title:TWENTY-NINTH BATTALION HOME GUARD (BURNLEY) THEIR TRAINING AND RECREATION [Alternative Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 699
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1940
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Hanna, Sam (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: English
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 690 ft; Running time: 20 mins
