Crossroads AKA Stay In The Army Reel 1 (1941-1956)

Credits read: “A War Office Production. Supervised by an Officer. Appointed by the Adjutant General to the Forces - Crown Copyright. Produced for the Army Kinema Corporation by Associated British Pathe.“ A fiction film made to encourage soldiers to stay in the forces. Begins with a scene set in the Sergeant’s Mess. Couples dance and men drink beer. Two old school soldiers discuss the fact that it is good that some of the young soldiers will decide to stay in the army although the war is over. Library footage is intercut with shots of the two old school soldiers as younger men. One of the men narrates the film, describing their army career and all the campaigns which they were involved in. Archive footage used includes footage of World War Two combat including footage of Dunkirk, Middle East Campaign, Anzio - Italy, El Alamein, Burma Campaign, London Bells on V.E. Day, Hong Kong from Kowloon, Suez Canal crisis, Mau-Mau campaign in Kenya. Reconstructions are used to show how the sergeants of