BRITISH ARMY COLOUR CAMOUFLAGE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - REEL 4 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: BRITISH ARMY COLOUR CAMOUFLAGE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - REEL 4 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6380
  • Other titles: AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN HAROLD GOOD [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Compilation of very short colour sequences shot and listed in series by Corps Camouflage Officer Captain Harold Good during military exercises by various units of British Army 12 Corps in Southern England in 1942 and 1943.
  • Description: [16:26:35] - "Blackcock - K.S.L.I. Positions." Low level aerial shots of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry positions in fields under nets. The wing support struts of the plane can be seen moving through shot. [16:26:48] - "Blackcock - Trenches no Spoil." High aerial shot of fields with trenches dug into them. Trenches appear as jagged black lines. [16:27:45] - "Fortescue - Infantry Position (BW)." Various B&W still aerial shots of emplacements. [16:28:04] - "Old Style Trenches - Hammer." Low level aerial shots of trenches surrounded by white spoil. [16:28:13] - "Infantry." Low level aerial shot of a field and hedgerow with no troops or vehicles visible. Several shots of dummies in the middle of a field. [16:29:09] - "Infantry (Poor)." Low level aerial shot of field and hedgerow with soldiers gathered next to it. [16:29:22] - "Fortesque - 7 Norfolk Infantry." 7th Battalion Norfolk Infantry. Various high altitude B&W stills with animated arrow. [16:30:05] - "Infantry - Blenheim Shadow." Low level aerial shot of troops gathered along a hedgerow (troops are possibly dummies?). The shadow of the Bristol Blenheim can be seen moving across the field. [16:30:14] - "Infantry Walking Along Road. Pillbox and Dannert Wire." Low level aerial shot of a country lane. Soldiers are seen walking along it. A single Motor Transport is seen at the beginning of the shot. Low level aerial shot of a pillbox in a field. [16:30:39] - "Infantry From Air On Road." Low level Aerial shot of soldiers walking along a country lane. Towards the end of the shot a Churchill tank can be seen parked on the verge under a tree. [16:30:39] - "Infantry by Hedge." Low level Aerial shot of troops in a line walking across a field. [16:30:45] - "Fortesque - Well Sighted Trenches in Broken B.G.I." B&W photos with animated arrow. [16:31:40] - "Fortesque - 176 B'gade Support Group M/G Platoon - Lats Giving Away Position." B&W aerial photos with animated arrows. [16:32:02] - "Fortesque - B.H.Q 2/6 Staffs Bombardment." B&W aerial photo. [16:32:11] - "Blackcock - Black Trenches White Spoil." Aerial shots of a field with white spoil piles in it. [16:32:18] - "Dummy Trench." Ground shot in B&W of a dummy trench. Black material laid out on the ground with the heads of dummies clearly visible. [16:32:34] - "Blanford - Mortar Dummy Display." Ground shot of a dummy mortar in a field. Mortar is surrounded by dummy ammunition boxes. [16:32:44] - "Blackcock - Trench Netted (8 Rifles)." Close up ground shot of supplies piled under a camouflage net. [16:32:53] - "Machine Gun Post - 8TH Rifles." (8th Rifle Brigade.) Close up Ground shot of two soldiers ready to man a machine gun. They are dug into a foxhole in a hedgerow. [16:33:14] - "Trench and L/M." Hedgerow with Camouflage net visible. Close up ground shot. [16:33:26] - "Blackcock - Trench Covered by Net. No L/M 8th Rifles." (8th Rifle Brigade.) Close up, ground shot of camouflage net draped over a foxhole. [16:33:40] - "Blackcock - A/T Gun 8th Rifles." (8th Rifle Brigade.) Close up, ground shot of an anti-tank gun dug into a hedgerow. The outline of the gun can be made out and shots are from two different angles. [16:34:03] - "Netted Pillbox." Ground shot. A pillbox between two roads with a camouflage net placed over the top. A lorry can be seen passing on the road behind the pillbox. [16:34:12] - "Hammer - Infantry Positions." Ground shot, pan in B&W of a hedgerow with wire fence visible. Also several soldiers can be seen behind the wire. [16:34:34] - "Troops Crossing Wire." B&W ground shot of soldiers crossing a barbed wire fence between and field and a lane. [16:34:42] - "Concealed Sniper." Ground shot from distance of a fallen tree in the middle of a field. Farm building and trees in the background. As the camera pans from left to right a sniper reveals himself at the end of the fallen tree. He is dressing in a full length smock which he removes to reveal his face. As he stands up he trips over. Another shot of a tree in a field with a bench in the F/G. As the camera takes a close up of the tree roots another sniper stands up and reveals his position. In this C/U the chimneys of a building can be seen in the B/G.
  • Alternative Title: AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN HAROLD GOOD [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: Colour (Kodachrome)
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  • Object_Number: MGH 6380
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
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  • Production Date: 1942
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Good, Harold L (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour (Kodachrome) Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 200 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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    MGH 6380

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    PHO 136 ()
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