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Title: RAZMAK 1

Reference number: 8322

Date: 1941*

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

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 3.17 mins

Description: Amateur footage in winter of soldiers and local people in and around 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 (0.02) shots from inside building in Razmak camp, snow covering ground, soldiers wading through - shots of local man standing in snow - shots of soldier pretending to threaten local man with bayonet - gvs of valley, road cleared of snow, pan across snowy landscape and mountains - shots of low fortified building with soldiers outside - shots of soldiers occupying machine gun positions in snow, fort in background - pan across settlements on hillside, soldiers and local men posing for camera beside building - c/u shot of local man's winter clothing - brief shot of road, staff car and truck with officers chatting (3.13) blank (3.17)