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Title: TA PRACTICE DRILL, WEAPONS EXERCISE AND CIVIL DEFENCE EXERCISE

Reference number: 9349

Date: 1951* /1955* / 1958*

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.49 mins

Description: Compilation of amateur footage of activities of the 278th Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery (T.A.), including civil defence training in the 1950s.

For other titles in this collection see also refs. 9348, 9350, 9351, 9352 and 9353

Shotlist: [BW] gvs field headquarters of 278 Lowland Field Regiment R.A. (T.A.), officers chatting, personnel and trucks - soldiers arriving at camp in civilian clothing with kit bags, then marching through camp in uniform - column of Land Rovers, field artillery tractors leaving camp - gvs exercise in fields (1.13) [COL] gvs artillery exercise on moorland, guns firing, soldier shouting orders with megaphone from command truck (1.58) [BW] gvs field artillery exercise, personnel and trucks, observation post, landscape - shot of garden, men and women at social gathering - gvs officers at camp - gvs artillery exercise, trucks under camouflage netting, command post, soldiers lining up at canteen truck for tea break - pan across landscape - gvs senior officer talking to men on break - vehicles on move - gvs officers assembling at field headquarters for group photograph (5.29) gvs football match at camp, players presented with prizes - tow truck pulling field artillery tractor from ditch - officers and men posing for camera at camp - men assemble for group photograph in civilian clothes - pan across group of women - gvs march past of pipe bands and regiments on hill above camp - brief shot of soldier returning home with kit (8.27) [COL] gvs field exercise on sunny day, mortar carriage being hauled up hill, officers surveying landscape then relaxing - gvs landscape, explosions on ridge in distance, officers observing, talking to soldiers at mortar position, command post, mortar being fired, observation post - gvs senior officers talking to men at firing positions - gvs camp, personnel and chaplain, inspection on parade ground (11.36) CIVIL DEFENCE EXERCISE - gvs at civil defence training camp, officers' briefing, discussions in command truck - gvs civil defence exercise, soldiers climbing through building remains obstacle course, clearing rubble, climbing scaffolding framework, officers in discussion, casualties being rescued, officer in Northumberland Civil Defence Corps uniform, casualty being lowered on bed-frame stretcher (14.14) dark int shots of hall laid out for meal - ext shots officers in mess uniform and evening wear chatting and drinking, brass band in background (15.49)