Title:EXERCISE SPARTAN - DISPLAY (CAMOUFLAGE ASSESSMENT FILM OF BRITISH ARMY EXERCISE IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND, MARCH 1943) [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 6360
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN HAROLD GOOD [Alternative Title]
Summary: Army training film showing good and bad camouflage practice on Exercise Spartan 3rd March 1943.
Description: 11:06:10 - Aerial shots of a field with dummy trenches setup in it. Starts at relatively high altitude and then the plane flies lower. Dummy anti-aircraft positions are shown from fairly low altitude. Caption - EXERCISE SPARTAN DISPLAY. 3.3.43 1300-1730 HRS. 1ST. ARMOURED GROUP DISPLAY SCHEME PRINCES RISBOROUGH. B&W still of fields and artillery. Moving B&W footage of convoys of vehicles parked in hedgerows. Caption - 13.3.43 1500-1700 HRS DISPLAY SCHEMES. "B" ECHELON GOMLEY. Colour aerial footage of countryside, fields and woodland. Caption - H.Q. 9TH ARMOURED DIV. MARSTON THRUSSEL. Very low altitude colour shots of vehicles camouflaged at the treeline, with woodland in the background. Aerial colour shot of hedgerow with vehicles camouflaged along it, also the shadow of the plane used for filming is in shot. Caption - 157 R.A.C. MILL HILL (157th Royal Armoured Corps). B&W still with animated arrow pointing out tanks along a hedgerow. Colour aerial footage of a farm with various vehicles in camouflage. Caption - BDE. H.Q. SIBBERTOFT. (Brigade Headquarters). Aerial colour footage of a field with four white tents along the hedgerow. Caption - 156 R.A.C. CASTLE YARD. 4.3.43 1200-1700 HRS. (156th Royal Armoured Corps.). 1ST. ARMOURED GROUP "DISPLAY" EAST ILSLEY. "B" ECHELON. B&W stills of convoy on roadside under nets. Colour aerial footage of road and fields with farm in the distance. Caption - GUN AREA. B&W stills of roads, fields and a canal with vehicles in various states of camouflage. Colour aerial footage of a river or canal.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN HAROLD GOOD [Alternative Title]
