Title:HOME MOVIES / TERRITORIAL ARMY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 295
Other titles:HOME MOVIES / AMATEUR FILM OF TERRITORIAL ARMY TRAINING BY JOHN DUNLOP [Alternative Title]
Summary: Home movie scenes intercut with Territorial Army training scenes and some promotional material from Ciné-Kodak.
Description: Coastal scenes filmed from a boat. A pleasure boat in a small harbour. Large houses and hotels on the water's edge. Boating activities. A picnic on board a yacht. Field of daffodils and an orchard. Two women in bathing costumes in the water with a man in a dinghy. Beach scenes with family and children. On board a small boat. Gunfire on Salisbury Plain? People standing next to a car (FS 6003) outside a house. Renovation of a large building. Builders pose for the camera. Large country house. Deer. A toy glider. View of a country estate and castle? Close-up of plants. Territorial Army manoeuvers on Salisbury Plain? Soldiers advancing and dropping to the ground. Camp. Guns being loaded and fired. Shots of a garden. Officers and soldiers gathering at camp. A statue of a man on horseback in the background. Car parked alongside (CGY 126), a NAAFI tent is visible behind. Soldiers line up. Shots of individuals in uniform with medals. Children's sports day. Territorial Army manoeuvers on Salisbury Plain?
[357ft] "The scenes are from Ciné Kodagraphs which may be purchased out-right from Ciné-Kodak Dealers." There follows a series of brief trailers advertising the following titles: "The Early Bird and the Worm", "Algiers", "These brief excerpts are from the hundreds of full length pictures rented by Kodascope Libraries at nominal cost.", "Felix in Hollywood", "Charles Chaplin in Easy Street", "Wild Puppies", "Rin-Tin-Tin in The Night Cry", "The Moose Country", "Ken Maynard in The Red Raider", "We're in the Navy Now".
A Bren carrier ? (HMH 456) emerges from Charing Cross station entrance and on to the road, watched by a small crowd. In a field, soldiers and civilians with a movie camera. Brief shot of a stills camera set up on a tripod. Officers and civilians stand next to two cars. A woman in one of the cars shows something to the camera. Large field guns being fired. A snowy back garden.
Alternative Title:HOME MOVIES / AMATEUR FILM OF TERRITORIAL ARMY TRAINING BY JOHN DUNLOP [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 295
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM (see note in Acquisition File)
Featured Period:
Production Date:1936
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Ciné-Kodak (Production company)
Dunlop, John (Production individual)
