PLA Home Guard
16mm film Black & White Sound 1943 3:20
Summary: Home Guard March Past, 1943
Title number: 1174
LSA ID: LSA/1615
Description: An inter-title states 'Home Guard PLA Sector-16 May 1943'.
We see rows of soldiers lined-up on a large parade ground.
An inter-title states 'Inspection, Tower'; officers are seen milling around and then there are shots of soldiers marching along a street with crowds looking-on.
An inter-title states 'March Past'; troops are seen marching past an office who is saluting. We see more shots of marching soldiers followed by a shot of military vehicles driving along a road.
An inter-title states 'At West India Docks'; we see soldiers milling about on a sunny dockside with cranes in the background.
Again an inter-title states 'Home Guard PLA Sector-16 May 1943'; we see troops lined up in rows being addressed by an officer(s) . There are vans with public-address loudspeaker horns beside them.
The rest of the film is a repeat of the first part, as described.
However , the final shot is a title in a antique script that says' Long may the Imperial Port of London Flourish'
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