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West Sussex Home Guard 2

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Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton
Screen Archive South East at the University of Brighton collects, preserves, catalogues and provides public access to its collection of films and magic lantern slides. The collection charts the rise of screen culture in the region and the nation and captures many aspects of life, work and creativity in the South East from the late 19th century to the present day. It is available for research, screenings, creative re-use and commercial access.

West Sussex Home Guard 2

Dastardly Nazi fifth-columnists get short shrift in this film showing the Home Guard defence tactics - which include pulling down a German paratrooper's trousers!

A training film for the West Sussex Home Guard showing the wrong and the right way to handle the enemy starting with shifty types attacking Home Guard men. The tables are then turned and the Nazis are arrested. Then a car pulls up at a roadblock only to race away with spies shooting dead the Home Guard. This is corrected in the following scene. Then a German parachutist overcomes his captors but, in the correct scene, the Home Guard pull his pants down - thus immobilising him.

A training film for the West Sussex Home Guard showing the wrong and the right way to handle the enemy starting with shifty types attacking Home Guard men. The tables are then turned and the Nazis are arrested. Then a car pulls up at a roadblock only to race away with spies shooting dead the Home Guard. This is corrected in the following scene. Then a German parachutist overcomes his captors but, in the correct scene, the Home Guard pull his pants down - thus immobilising him.

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