Title:BRITISH ARMY COLOUR CAMOUFLAGE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - REEL 23 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 6399
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: "25 pounders in action." - B&W ground shot C/U of a 25 pound gun and crew. Plus B&W stills with animated arrow.
"Farnham & cozy." - Ground shot C/U of something under a lot of nets in autumnal colours.
B&W shots of emplacements.
"Blackcock - L.P. as haystack, ammo along hedge hessian covered (65 Med Regt R.A.)" - (65th Medical Regiment. Royal Artillery.) Ground shot C/U of a row of hessian covered objects. It is difficult to distinguish what they are.
Series of B&W shots of German infantry fighting in various areas.
"Waiting convoy on path." - High altitude shot of countryside. A road can be seen with many vehicles parked along it.
"T.M. in field (5 Guards Arm'd W/T(7?))." - (5th Guards Armoured Division.) Three ground shots. First and second shot are C/U of vehicles in a field under hessian and nets. In the first shot a soldier can be seen in F/G carrying kit. The third shot is the group of vehicles from a distance.
"Blackcock - cluster grouped M.T. in field (310 RASE)." - (310th regiment Royal Artillery Service Engineers?) Two ground shots of a field with various hessian and net covered vehicles in the distance.
"Blackcock - cluster group M.T (5 arm'd W/S (5?))." - (5th Guards Armoured Division.) Ground shot. Long pan around field showing various vehicles under nets and hidden under trees and hedgerows.
"Pilgrim - M.T. under cover." - B&W ground shots of various vehicles.
"M.T. moving along road." - B&W ground shot of a convoy on a country road.
"M.T and shrimp net." - C/U ground shot of a vehicle under a net. The vehicle is a medium sized Motor Transport.
"Blackcock - blankets on Dannet wire." Various low altitude shots of blankets hanging on a fence. In the third shot a camp can just be seen.
"Blankets and washing." - Three low altitude shots of different camps with washing a blankets visible laid out to dry and air.
"Washing in corner of heather field." - High altitude shot of a field. Sheets and blankets can be seen laid out on the grass.
"Blackcock- blankets under trees." - Ground shot C/U of blankets hung in woods. Possibly around a fire as there is smoke rising.
"Blankets on hedge - Blackcock (75 AT Regt)." - (75th Anti-tank Regiment.) Ground shot C/U of blankets on a hedge. It is a very windy day.
"Harlequin - paliases in open." - Very short ground shot of pile of mattresses (?) in camp. A soldier come to pick them up.
"Schemes to hide washing blankets." - Series of B&W drawings.
"Harlequin - paliases unloaded from lorry." - Shot is upside down and hard to make out.
"Blackcock - towels on transporter." - Ground shot C/U of two white towels hanging from a net covered vehicle.
"Tiger - Anson shadow over huts." - The shadow of the Avro Anson plane that the film is taken from passing over huts and farmland.
"Air View striped nissens." - Medium Altitude shot of nissen huts painted in camouflage colours.
"Huts & roof B/G." - Medium altitude shot of three large industrial buildings in countryside.
"Shots of nissen huts." - B&W shots of nissan hut.
"Nissen huts." - Ground shot C/U of nissen hut with camouflage scheme painted on it.
"Cam school - dummy tanks." - two W/S ground shots of the grounds of the house at Blanford. There are two dummy tanks and a dummy Bofors gun in the grounds as well as several dummy soldiers.
"Explosions and tanks." - B&W footage of tanks.
"Convoys on ?" - Medium altitude shots of a convoy of vehicles on a country road.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY CAPTAIN HAROLD GOOD [Alternative Title]
