News Briefs (1942)

Titles read: ’News Briefs’. Various locations of events. In the United States of America we see several shots of young men doing physical training at a high school gym. They do boxing, slide along the ground, swing on and climb up ropes during Commando training. In a field, we see the bare chested men doing more training - running across the grass, leaping over others who are crouched down, scaling a wall and swinging on ropes to land in hay. Some shots are in slow motion. Reverse shot shows the men leaping backwards over a ditch. Also in America, M/S of soldiers marching along a country road in tin helmets, gas-masks and protective clothing, carrying rifles. A soldier loads a large shell into a container standing with a line of others in a field. Another soldier pushes down the handle of a detonator. M/S of large explosion coming out of the containers. Commentator talks of chemical warfare being employed against military objectives in Germany if Hitler uses gas against the Russians. S