Army Endurance Test (1961)

Farnborough, Hampshire. War Office scientists have decided to test “how much the modern soldier can endure“ and placed a group of soldiers under ’health investigation’. A soldier is seen with his shirt unbuttoned and wires placed on his body. This device measures body temperature, heart beat rate and the rate of breathing, informs a voiceover. Soldier is also fitted with a strange looking gas mask, a helmet, rucksack with his belongings and a gun. He joins a group of soldiers, all looking same as him, and they start running. Soldiers run across the field, climb the stairs, run downhill, across a high barricade (more like a jump), crawl under the wire, run across the water - classic army training scenes. At the end, a team of scientists (three men wearing civilian clothes) waits for them to measure how fit they are. One of the scientists holds a soldier’s wrist, measuring his pulse. Another soldier is seen with special mask measuring the amount of air he breathed. While the two soldiers are examined,