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Title: HOME GUARD, AYR - STAND DOWN

Reference number: 1317

Date: 1944, December 3

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18.00 minsc

Description: The Home Guard, during drill and on parade past the barracks. 3rd December 1944.

Shotlist: [Note shotlisted at 24fps, actual speed is 16fps.]

Credits. Home Guard, 7th Ayr. December 3, 1944 (0.18); Shot of contemporary news cuttings regarding the 'stand down' of Home Guard (0.26); General views of groups of uniformed members of the Home Guard in a square in Ayr and outside drill hall (?). More shots of Home Guard in streets (1.12); A piper (1.21); Home Guard personnel at ease in the streets of Ayr (2.45); Shots of Guard lined up for inspection and then on parade past barracks (?) (4.58); Shots of esplanade and Home Guard lined up for inspection. Visiting officer addresses the assembly and inspects the Guard (7.11); Page from Special Army Order - Message to Home Guard from King George VI (7.41); General views of parade and march off. Shot of saluting base as parade march past down to town (10.40); General views of the parade in street (12.42); The End (12.45)