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Title: TOCHI - JOCKS IN THE NUDE

Reference number: 8307

Date: 1942, August

Director: [filmed by Richard H.S. Irvine]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 3.52 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the King's Own Scottish Borderers on training in Waziristan in the North-West Frontier of India around the start of World War II.

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(0.00) blank (0.03) gvs of Tochi River valley in Waziristan, mountains and river, intercut with high shots of soldiers washing themselves and relaxing in water - brief gvs of hillside and settlement - brief shot of Sikh officers - shots of regiment in summer uniform relaxing beside and crossing river with pack-mules - gvs of landscape, river and hills - shots of soldiers trekking through vegetation, crossing river with settlement in distance, resting in area under trees near river - gvs of hills and mountains with pockets of cloud / smoke? in distance - over-exposed gvs of hills, ridges - shot of local man at sandbag-lined gun emplacement - gvs in barren valley, fort in distance and soldiers setting up camp in foreground (3.49) blank (3.52)