Commando On Wheels (1940)

Full title reads: COMMANDO ON WHEELS. South Africa. Mrs Smuts, wife of the Prime Minster of South Africa, General Jan Smuts, presenting a scroll to men of a mobile commando unit who are to go around the country recruiting men for the fight. Various shots of the long column of motorcycles and cars moving off along roads with several cuts to Mrs Smuts, Colonel Werdmuller and Colonel Denys Reitz, Minister of Native Affairs, watching the column moving off. Several shots of the tour wherever they go there are crowds around the roads to greet them. (Mute Track Negs. ) FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136, 000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (19101932), Empire News Bulletin (1926