FILM-MADE TROOPS.
RECRUITS LEARN WORK BETTER ON SCREEN
SERGEANT-MAJOR’S POWER THREATENED
United Pres* Asfii by El. Tel Copyright (United Service.) LONDON, Oct. 78.
The Daily Mail says silent film instruction threatens the, position of the sergeant-major as the terror of recrui/s. A London territorial regiment is testing a scheme of showing recruits their drill movements upon the screen before they are placed in the awkward squad, believing that the more intelligent men will learn more quickly than by a sergeanfmajor’s sarcasms.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10730, 30 October 1928, Page 6
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81FILM-MADE TROOPS. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10730, 30 October 1928, Page 6
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