Other titles:AMATEUR FILM OF TERRITORIAL ARMY TRAINING BY JOHN DUNLOP [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film showing the training of a brigade, including Army manoeuvers and exercises. The film was possibly used as a promotional film to attract new recruits. Inter-titles throughout describe the action.
Description: Soldiers hide in the undergrowth and open fire. One man sounds a wooden rattle. Other troops positioned behind a grassy bank and next to railway tracks. Very long shot of open land and, barely visible, men running across it. Tanks produce smoke screens. 'Enemy' planes searching for troops. Gunners spot them and open fire. A tank is concealed in a wooded area. Soldiers with horses stand by. A large gun is camouflaged with branches. Soldiers eating lunch and resting. Various signalling techniques, heliographic, semaphore and a close up of a Morse code machine. Horse-drawn carts and mounted troops, also troops on bikes and foot. Tank-type vehicles pass along village road. Motorbike. Mounted troops near barns. Caterpillar-track vehicles towing guns. Men load and fire guns in a field. Firing machine guns. Other guns being fired. Shot of machine gunners from front. Lorries transport reinforcements. Very brief shot of nurse walking past camera. Close-up of tank. 'Prisoners' are brought in. 'Cease fire' is called. Troops on the move. Return march to camp. A civilian car passes by. Troops marching. Horses are fed and watered at camp. Colonel Brown and Lord Exeter, Lord Lieut of Northamptonshire pose for the camera. Lord Onslow, Under Secretary of State for War, the Mayoress of Northamptonshire and Lieut-Colonel of Cockburn converse in front of the camera. Back at camp, Colonel Lowther, DSO, 4th Btn, Northants Rgt, and Master of the Crack Pack, The Pytchley addresses his battalion. Troops leave the field. A lengthy caption extolling the virtues of joining and supporting the Territorial Army concludes the film.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM OF TERRITORIAL ARMY TRAINING BY JOHN DUNLOP [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 340
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM (see note in Acquisition File)
Featured Period:
Production Date:1926
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Dunlop, John (Production individual)
