Ain't seen that for a long time! There were some training notes with the film with a load of questions for the students and they had to take notes during it too. You'd get asked something like '.....what did he do with his sweet wrappers' or 'why do you think they were drinking cold coffee? Why did he remain motionless after he fired? etc etc.
I will ask who the two snipers were. They will be sniper instructors and it'll have been filed at Imber somewhere on the field firing range where this stuff usually takes place
The other film was 'I am a sniper' filmed at HYthe. I wonder of the British Film Library archive have a copy. It was made by the Army Kinema Corporation
John Cleese could not have done it better himself. I do like the WW1 birthday party on the front line a little better though. Imagine the same type of film from the German side seeing clocks and birthday cakes. LOL. A great video, much appreciated.
I remember them showing us an ancient black-white one all about jungle warfare, apparently dating back to the Malayan Emergency. (The battalion was supposed to be going to Gibraltar. Didn't seem to have much relevance to Gibraltar.) The sound didn't work so we ran it backwards.
There was another (colour) one about communications security with sinister-looking Soviet types in high collars and shoulder boards monitoring the radio messages of stout-hearted British officers in old-fashioned brown battledress, that looked to date from the early '60s.
The I am a sniper dated from 1949 as we had the film script motes and sniper questionnaire notes and other paperwork for it all at Warminster. And the names of the SASC 'snipers' involved And the O i/c running the film set, a Capt from the Dorsetshire Regt who was 21/c of the sniper wing at the time.
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