- Title: VM-1204
- Summary: FINNISH TRAINING IN WINTER: FINNISH (FINLAND) ELITE SKI TROOPERS TRAIN IN SNOW WITH HEAVY MACHINEGUN. GERMAN NARRATION
- Description:00:01:10 - MLS SIX FINNISH SOLDIERS IN ALL-WHITE (CAMOUFLAGE) SNOW GEAR RUN TO THEIR SKIS, PUT THEM ON IN RECORD TIME, STAND AT ATTENTION IN THE SNOW. ONE SOLDIER PUTS HARNESS ATTACHED TO SLED WITH FOLDED MACHINEGUN, WRAPPED IN CANVAS, AROUND HIS NECK AND THREE OTHER SOLDIERS (LIKE TEAM OF HORSES SHARING THE BURDEN. LEAD SOLDIER GIVES SIGNAL AND ALL SIX START ACROSS SNOWY WOODS IN SINGLE LINE PULLING THE SLED BEHIND THEM. 00:01:59 - VARIOUS SHOTS SKI TROOPS SKIING CROSS COUNTRY STYLE DRAGGING THEIR SLED THROUGH SNOW BOUND WOODED AREA . SKIERS GOING DOWN HILL TOWARDS CAMERA. VARIOUS SHOTS SLOWLY PLODDING ALONG ON SNOWY FLAT SURFACE, DRAGGING THEIR EQUIPMENT, MAKING NARROW TRACKS IN SNOW WITH SKIS. 00:03:05 - SKIERS CLIMB HILLY SURFACE USING THEIR SKI POLES, KEEPING IN SINGLE LINE. 00:03:55 - LEADER SUDDENLY GIVES COMMAND (SPOTS UNSEEN ENEMY) FALL FORWARD ON HIS CHEST, OTHERS FOLLOW. MCU LEADER PRONE ON GROUND IN Q FOOT OF SNOW, CALLS ANOTHER OVER, ORDERS HIM TO GO FORWARD ON HIS STOMACH. CU SKIER PLODS FORWARD, PUSHING THE SNOW BEFORE HIM, THUS KEEPING HIM HIDDEN IN THE ONE FOOT OF SNOW, TRYING HIS BEST TO KEEP A LOW PROFILE. VARIOUS SHOTS SKIER CRAWLING ALONG UNTIL HE FINDS GOOD VANTAGE POINT BEHIND SMALL TREE. OTHER SKIERS FOLLOW IN GROOVE LEFT IN SNOW, SLOWLY, GRUELINGLY, PUSHING SLED WITH GUN IN FRONT OF THEM. ALWAYS KEEPING LOW PROFILE 00:05:52 - TWO MEN BEGIN UNCOVERING MACHINEGUN WHILE KEEPING LOW PROFILE, UNTIL IT IS SET UP FOR ACTION, THEN CARRY IT INTO PLACE BY SMALL TREE. MEANWHILE OTHERS CRAW TOWARDS POSITION, THROW MAGAZINES OF AMMO TYO THE TEAM WITH GUN. 00:07:02 - MACHINEGUN TEAM OF THREE PREPARE GUN, LOAD IT WITH AMMO. MS MEANWHILE MEN IN REAR COVER THE SLED WITH CANVAS, COVER IT WITH SNOW TO KEEP IT HIDDEN. ALL TIME KEEPING LOW PROFILE (ON THEIR STOMACHS). ANOTHER TROOPER CRAWLS ON HIS STOMACH TO COLLECT ALL THE SKIES AND POLES LEFT IN PLACE BY OTHERS, THEN HIDES THEM BY COVERING THEM IN SNOW. THEN CRAWLS TOP JOIN OTHERS. 00:09:05 - MCU LEADER, ONLY HEAD VISIBLE ABOVE THE SNOW, GIVES SIGNAL TO FIRE. PAN TO MACHINE GUN TEAM. CU GUNNER FIRES MACHINE GUN AS OTHER FEED BULLETS WHILE THIRD MAN SIGNALS HIM WHEN TO FIRE BY TAPPING HIM (GUNNER) ON SHOULDER. CU GOOD SHOTS MACHINE GUNNERS FIRING TOWARDS CAMERA. 00:09:47 - AFTER SEVERAL BURSTS THE GROUP CRAWL BACKWARDS OUT OF THE AREA USING SAME METHOD IN REVERSE PULLING MACHINE GUN WITH THEM. 00 10 17 TROOPER UNCOVERS SLED IN SNOW JUST AS THE TEAM ARRIVES WITH THE GUN. THEY LOAD IT ON SLED AND MOVE ON, STILL KEEPING THE LOW PROFILE. CU TROOPERS FEET ON SKIS QUICKLY EVACUATING THE AREA PULLING THE SLED BEHIND THEM AS THEY GO. 00:12:00 - VARIOUS SHOTS SKI TROOPERS SKIING OUT OF THE AREA IN SINGLE LINE ACROSS WOODS, CROSS COUNTRY DOWN HILLS TOWARDS CAMERA AND OTHER SHOTS. 00:12:55 - TROOPERS SUDDENLY HUIT THE DECK AS SOUNDS OF MACHINE GUN FIRE FILLS AIR. MEN QUICKLY MOVE FORWARD ON THEIR STOMACHS, AGAIN PUSHING THE SNOW ALONG AS THEY MOVE, THE MEN UNCOVER THEIR MACHINE GUN, PUSH IT IN PLACE IN THE SNOW, EFFICIENTLY SETTING IT UP AGAIN, AND FIRING AT HIDDEN ENEMY. 00:14:50 - GUNNER FIRES BURST EACH TIME HIS PARTNER PATS HIM ON BACK. 00:15:32 - TROOPERS MOVE QUICKLY, TO ANOTHER POSITION, KEEPING SAME LOW PROFILE, FIRE AT ENEMY IN SAME WAY. LEADER CHECKS. AS QUICKLY AS THEY SET UP, THEY QUICKLY, EFFICIENTLY BACK OUT OF THE AREA, GET ON SKIS AND SPEED AWAY ON THEIR SKIS PULLING THE MACHINEGUN SLED WITH THEM. 00:17:22 - END.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1204