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Title: KILROY WAS THERE

Reference number: 4708

Date: 1988

Director: d. Mark Littlewood

Sponsor: Channel Four Television

Production company: Pelicula Film

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 54.38 mins

Description: A film about the National Service that was compulsory for young men in the 1950s and 60s. There are interviews with men who were former 'conscripts' and footage from that era.

Shotlist: REEL 1
Shots of barracks, people talking, title (2.33); Shot of 'Kilroy' (name for every man in the 1950s that done his National Service), photographs of men during their National Service (3.07); man talking to the camera (3.54); [b&w] footage of Marble Arch Subway, London with men in their Army Uniforms (4.05); man talking to camera (4.43); [b&w] footage of medical (5.11); men talking to the camera (6.42); [b&w] footage of recruits entering the Regiment Area (7.24); interviews with ex-conscripts talking about their experiences inter cut with with soldiers marching, photographs of the barracks and various soldiers in their uniforms (29.49).

REEL 2
There are interviews with men who were former 'conscripts' and footage from that era.