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CANADA. CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM / MUSÉE DE LA GUERRE DU CANADA

1987-0464

Film

1 of 1

1941

Army Film Unit

director, Hugh Stewart; editing, Edward Carrick; music, Richard Addinsell

Ministry of Information

A fictional "day in the life" of a Royal Corps of Signals despatch rider.~After introducing himself to the camera, the rider is seen receiving orders at 6am in London to get an urgent message to a Brigadier before he embarks on a destroyer near Glasgow at 6pm the same evening. He is given authority to break speed limits if he must, but is asked not to if possible.~The film follows the rider through various incidents: his being challenged by a sentry o a bridge with anti-tank obstacles near London; a detour around a street closed because of an unexploded bomb, where he has to ask a postwoman the way; requisitioning petrol from an army lorry; having lunch in a village south of Carlisle; asking a boy the way in Gretna; having a puncture; asking a policeman the way in Glasgow; and arriving at the waiting Naval cutter just before the Brigadier, stating "I needn't have hurried after all". <8mn>

English

Libre

V1 2001-06-0031

GAD 0FD779

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