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Title: COMMANDO

Reference number: N1071

Date: 1982*

Director: d. Christopher Kay

Sound: sound

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.22 mins

Description: Documentary on the history of Commando soldiers from WW2 to the Falklands campaign. Various interviews ex-Commandos about wartime raids, intercut with black & white archive footage.

Credits: comm. John Duncanson
sd. George Leslie, Ino Vissar, Neil McMillan
sd. dub. Richard Hughes, Bob Stephen
film cam. Pete Moran, Gordon Watson, Ron Barton
p.ass. Barbara Dickie
rep. Bob Kenyon
film ed. Roy Smith
exec.p. Ted Brocklebank
Additional film sequences courtesy of the Imperial War Museum and the Central Office of Information.
Grampian Television wishes to thank the officers and men of 45 Commando, HMS Condor, Arbroath for their assistance in making this film.

Shotlist: Marine Commando soldiers disembarking from aircraft at Leuchers, intercut with scenes from Falklands war. Welcoming party and wives and children meeting soldiers at Arbroath. Flags, bunting. Commando statue near Achnacarry. Title. (0.54) int. talking head Lord Lovat (1.14) int. talking head David Stirling (1.34) int. talking head Major General Sir Steuart Pringle (1.44) ext, statue at Spean Bridge (2.11) b&w stills Dunkirk, Churchill (2.31) stills from Boer war, Lord Lovat Chief of Clan Fraser. Still Scots commando pioneers Shimmy Fraser and David Stirling (3.05) aeriel view rugged Highland terrain (3.15) b&w still Shimmy Lovat (3.23) int. talking head Lord Lovat intercut with aeriel view remote landscape (3.49) int. talking head David Stirling (4.15) b&w footage soldiers (4.25) int. talking head David Stirling (4.57) b&w footage soldiers (5.04) ext. talking head Donald Gilchrist (5.14) soldiers training (5.28) Major General Sir Steuart Pringle (5.34) commandos training (6.05) b&w film soldiers hoisting themselves over river (6.34) b&w film soldier handing out bayonets (6.45) int. talking head David Stirling (6.48) commando training (6.55) int. talking head Lt. Col. Andrew Whitehead intercut with footage Falklands (7.18) ext. talking head Niall Thomson intercut with b&w photos rock climbing and other training plus colour footage of contemporary training (7.48) ext. Donald Gilchrist intercut with b&w photos and contemporary training (8.21) b&w film Commando boat training landing on rocky shore, in which 2 men drowned (9.16)colour film trainees in boat (9.25) int. talking head David Stirling (9.27) ext. talking head Gordon Webb, intercut with b&w photo (10.05) ext. talking head Donald McKinnon (10.22) b&w film of refinery explosion intercut with int. talking head David Stirling (11.17) b&w photos of carnage in aftermath of Dieppe landings (12.20) b&w photos destroyed harbour at St. Lazare (12.33) b&w film combat (12.49) col, ext. talking head Alf Searson intercut with b&w film surrendered commandos, many wounded, with German soldiers (13.44) b&w stills commando landings (14.01) ext talking head Piper Bill Millan intercut with b&w photos (15.07) Royal marines marching (15.25) int. talking head man (15.34) helicopter lands, contemporary marines board (15.47) sign, 'Royal Marine Condor 45 Commandos Group' based in Arbroath (15.53) tracking shot from helicopter, drill in 1982 (16.17) marine commandos landing at the Falklands, gvs war (16.54) int. talking head Lt. Col. Andrew Whitehead intercut with footage Falklands (17.14) talking heads off duty marines and marines in uniform (18.12) ext. Major General Sir Steuart Pringle walking with sticks after IRA bomb blast, scene of blast (18.59) int. talking head Major General Sir Steuart Pringle (18.48) marines skiing (19.05) SBS divers off coast of Norway (19.15) marine parachutists. Gvs marines training in arctic conditions against Soviet threat (20.30) int. talking head Major General Sir Steuart Pringle, footage Falklands (20.54) footage SAS storming Iranian embassy in 1980 (21.08) b&w still David Stirling and early SAS (21.19) int. talking head David Stirling intercut with footage of embassy siege (22.54) SAS planes in Falklands (23.12) ext, statue at Spean Bridge (23.35) aeriel footage Achnacarry area (23.58) b &w film commandos (24.02) c/u statue, 'United We Conquer', 'In Memory of the Officers and Men of the Commandos...' (24.07) Marine Commando soldiers disembarking from aircraft at Leuchers, shaking hands with Major General Sir Steuart Pringle (24.31) c/u statue (25.02) ecs (26.22)