Title:PRIX GENERAL LECLERC SHOOTING CONTEST, CAMP DE STENTEN, GERMANY, 8 AUGUST 1957 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 1573
Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:The 1957 Prix General Leclerc shooting competition. Flag raising ceremony; military band (with goat mascot) plays and British, US and French troops stand to attention, as General Carolet arrives by car. The ceremony is watched by General Carolet and others (including General Weber and General of the Army Jacquot, Commander-in-Chief, French Forces in Germany). The competition; US and British soldiers clean and load rifles and hand guns, and, in prone position, aim at targets. US generals keep score. Soldiers aiming and firing, empty shells being ejected. Targets are lowered, patched and raised. British, Dutch, US and French soldiers firing on .45 calibre pistols on the smallarms target range: some hit bullseye. Targets at scoring table. General Valluy and General Jacquot talk. The machine gun contest: British US and German soldiers seen in action. Presentation ceremony: trophies on table are inspected. Officers (including Lieutenant General Clark, General Valluy, General Jacquot and General Hodes) assemble as French Moroccan band with goat strike up. Madame Leclerc (General Leclerc's widow) and General Valluy award the Prix Leclerc trophy to the French team. Plaques are handed out by General Jacquot. Final posed shots of the various teams and of the scoreboards.
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Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
