Cuts (rushes, out takes) for story featured in Colour Pictorial - CP 725. The original story is also on Pathe Master tape *PM0469*.
Three reels of cuts exist for this story so well worth checking for extra material. Cuts total almost 40 minutes.
This reel of cuts has the footage of the R.A.F. (Royal Air Force, RAF) regiment on parade in Uxbridge - the Queen's Colours Squadron. Some good C/Us of officer types here not used inn cut story.
Sequence follows of men setting up an anti aircraft gun in a field. Probably the mock battle in Wiltshire. Good shots of men loading shells into the gun. RAF helicopters approach the camera and land. Men scramble carrying equipment. Shots from inside the helicopter cockpit not used in cut story. Men set up equipment. Man uses field telephone. Various military equipment is seen.
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