Title:BRITISH ARMY COLOUR CAMOUFLAGE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - REEL 19 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6395
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: Colour drawings, paintings and models. Also some B&W footage of exercises.
"17lb + cosy." Seventeen pound gun under a hessian net, known as a cosy.
"25 Pounder." Ground shot of a 25 pound gun under a camouflage net. Also another gun can be seen as well as part of a camp.
"25 pounder under trees (simple attachment)." "5 pound gun under nets and material on the edge of a field.
Series of B&W sequences.
"Blanford display - trenches dummy positions." Very low altitude shots of dummy trenches and command posts.
"Farnham - trenches in backyard operational speed display." Very quick , very low altitude, very poor quality shot of farm buildings.
"Blandford - trench display." Ground shot of dummy trench in a high grass in field.
"Blanford - trenches display low air." Low altitude shot of dummy trenches in a field.
"Blanford - trenches display low air." Low altitude shot of dummy trenches in a field.
"Blanford - Trenches & tracks display." High altitude shot of dummy trenches and vehicle tracks in field.
"Snipers dancing." Ground shot C/U of two soldiers in full length camouflaged smocks dance in a silly fashion.
B&W footage of American machine gunners.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN HAROLD GOOD [Alternative Title]
