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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

5522

Title

[HOME GUARD TRAINING AND CAMPING]

Producer

Reginald Kaye

Date

1940

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

13 mins 33 secs

Description

Footage showing members of the Home Guard training and being shown how to correctly use a weapon. The film contains images of the Home Guard marching along streets to a church, with onlookers watching as they go past. Flags are waved and a military band marches with the soldiers. At the end of the film an army camp can be seen with soldiers using a makeshift kitchen outdoors to cook food and feed the rest of the troops at the camp.

 

 



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