| PUTTING THEM THROUGH THEIR PACES! (aka SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS) New recruits get drill and bayonet training in South Africa. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7523 |
| Catalog #: | 494616 | |
| Clip Number: | 494616-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 183 C | |
| Timecode: | 01:00:05 - 01:01:33 | |
| Location: | South Africa | |
| Year Shot: | 1940 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | LOCATIONS/AFRICA: South Africa MILITARY: Army, South Africa MILITARY: Training WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Recruits | |
| Description: | PUTTING THEM THROUGH THEIR PACES! (aka SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPS) New recruits get drill and bayonet training in South Africa. "African Mirror No. 55. Putting Them Through Their Paces!" South Africa. South African Army recruits (all white guys) learn marching and bayonetting. High ang. GV pan large square surrounded by big modern buildings; scattered around the square are small groups of new recruits learning to march, in small groups. MSs of the young men (all white) marching by, saluting, practicing marching in slow time, then speeding up. Various shots group of soldiers in Scottish uniforms incl. kilts demonstrate the results of two weeks' training. They perform rifle drill, march. Bayonet drill. Var shots as the "Scotties" practice the movements over and over. Then they move up to practicing with sand bags - -MSs / CUs of the men lunging at the sacks or running and stabbing them wth bayonets. VO says they get extra incentive by imagning that the two sacks hanging there are "two gentlemen in Europe - -and we needn't tell you who!" | |
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