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Title: RAZMAK IN SNOW

Reference number: 8321

Date: 1941*

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

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 3.56 mins

Description: Amateur footage in winter of soldiers and local people at Razmak army training camp, a base for the King's Own Scottish Borderers, in Waziristan on the North-West Frontier of India around the start of World War II.

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(0.00) blank (0.03) gvs of Razmak camp under deep snow cover, snow-covered mountains visible in distance - people walking through snow in camp - shots of accommodation blocks and snowman outside - gvs of accommodation blocks with snow and icicles on roofs - brief shot of Sergeant Axford? walking through snow - gvs of officers' mess and camp, mountains in distance - c/u sign 'Orchard Street (East)' - shots of Sergeant Axford? jumping around to keep warm, pan across mountains - shot of sign 'Border Lane', tilt up to snow-covered telegraph pole - group of soldiers on cleared path - pan along 'Charles Street', shots of soldiers clearing path - brief shot of local man's winter clothing (3.56)