EXERCISES HAMMER, SPARTAN, PILGRIM, SAILOR - CONCEALMENT ALL ARMS (CAMOUFLAGE ASSESSMENT FILM OF BRITISH ARMY EXERCISES IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND, MARCH 1943) [Main Title]
Title:EXERCISES HAMMER, SPARTAN, PILGRIM, SAILOR - CONCEALMENT ALL ARMS (CAMOUFLAGE ASSESSMENT FILM OF BRITISH ARMY EXERCISES IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND, MARCH 1943) [Main Title]
Film Number:MGH 6361
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN HAROLD GOOD [Alternative Title]
Summary:
Description: 11:14:01 - Caption - EXERCISES HAMMER- SPARTAN PILGRIM AND GALLOP CONCEALMENT ALL ARMS. Colour aerial footage of light industrial complex surrounded by fields. Colour aerial of farmland divided into narrow short fields. Colour aerial of small English village. Next section of film includes B&W drawings of various camouflage techniques including using industrial and urban material and rubbish to disguise guns and vehicles. Colour footage on the groound of a netted position by a lake. Aerial colour footage of parkland outside of a small village. Caption - PATCH COVERS. Various drawings and some B&W stills illustrating the use of patch covers. Caption (over colour film) - Correct use of local material. Colour footage of a lane with a tank camouflaged with foliage on the grass verge. Various shots on the ground of vehicles and artillery covered in foliage. B&W footage of guns camouflaged by rubbish and straw. Colour aerial footage of exercise headquarters, showing tents and vehicles. B&W stills with animated arrow of the HQ. Colour aerial of nissen huts hidden in trees. Colour aerial of netted emplacements in fields with shadow of aircraft in frame. Also tracks left in field. Caption - BLANKETS AND WASHING. Colour aerial of blankets and washing giving away positions in fields. Colour aerial of nets being used over guns in fields. Caption - 179 FIELD RGT. Colour ground footage of me and guns under netting in trees. Caption - 41ST BTY. 20TH A/T RGT. (41st Battery. 20th Anti-Tank Regiment). Colour ground footage of men running to man a gun camouflaged by chicken coop and rubbish. Caption - 59TH A/T RGT. (59th Anti-Tank Regiment). Close up colour ground footage of men manning a gun with badly positioned netting. Caption - 110 L.A.A. RGT. (110th Light Anit-Aircraft Regiment). Colour ground footage of an AA gun with no camouflage also a gun being manned by it's crew with no camouflage. Colour ground of men digging an emplacement and guns hidden in hedgerows. Caption - 7TH HAMPS. AND 2ND MONS. (7nd Hampshire and 2nd Monmouths). Colour ground of men dug in under nets with autum foliage. Also Aerial footage of tracks left in a field. Caption - 5TH DORSETS. Coloour ground footage of hedgerow with men and vehicles under nets and foliage. Caption - 141 R.A.C. AND 151 R.A.C. (Royal Armoured Corps). Colour ground footage of a vehicle under nets, quite close up. Caption - 31ST TANK BDE. FEN PLACE AND TURNERS HILL. B&W stills of various vehicles under camouflage from the local area. Colour ground footage of farm yard with various vehicles under nets. Caption - 7TH SURVEY REGT. ELLESBOROUGH HILL. More B&W stills. Caption - 151 R.A.C. MOVING UP. (Royal Armoured Corps). Colour ground footage of Churchill tanks moving along road. Caption - 171 FIELD RGT. R.A. (Royal Artillery). Colour ground of man standing around a tank under nets. More footage of vehicles under nets on the side of the road. Caption - 43 DIV. H. Q. Colour ground footage of a field with staff cars and their drivers as well as other vehicles under trees. Caption - H.Q. 112 AMD. BDE B SQUADRON. (112th Armoured Brigade). Colour ground footage of a farmyard filled with vehicles while soldiers sort out nets. Caption - 156 R.A.C. (Royal Armoured Corps). Colour ground footage of vehicles under nets
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN HAROLD GOOD [Alternative Title]
