Title:TERRITORIAL ARMY ACTIVITIES ON SALISBURY PLAIN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 341
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM OF TERRITORIAL ARMY TRAINING BY JOHN DUNLOP [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film showing the training of a brigade, including Army manoeuvres and exercises. Inter-titles throughout describe the action.
Description: Military band followed by troops. Inspection of a small group of soldiers at the roadside. Parade in field. Soldiers set up a temporary pontoon over a small river then cross it. Officer crosses wobbly pontoon. Troops and horse-drawn guns on the move. Loading and firing guns. Soldiers firing guns on the ground (at Musketry Camp) down into the valley. Close-up of rifle being loaded and fired. Soldiers running over hill, taking position and firing. Manoeuvers. Changing gun with round cartridge and firing. Arrival of machine gun and men by horse-drawn cart. Gun is assembled and fired. Horse-drawn cart takes gun and men away again. Mounted troops arrive over hill and charge across a field. Shot of bi-plane. Aerial shots of countryside (and clouds). Aerial shots of Old Sarum airfield. Men operating a winch and using ropes to lower a telegraph pole? Sections of the a bridge are moved. Troops march over hill. "The End".
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM OF TERRITORIAL ARMY TRAINING BY JOHN DUNLOP [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 341
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM (see note in Acquisition File)
Featured Period:
Production Date:1929
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Dunlop, John (Production individual)