'Service Tests of Modern Sub Machine Guns' is a film recording extensive testing of the Thompson, Sten, Bergman and Owen Sub Machine Guns.

Filmed by 20th Century Fox Movietone News on Monday, 22 December 1941 at the Long Bay Rifle Range (now The Anzac Rifle Range) at Randwick, New South Wales (Australia).

Film Direction: Major H Grattan Guinness
Film commentary: Lt. Col. L. MooreCosgrave.

On the same VHS Cassette Tape were also two other Movietone News films:
"Aust. Inventor Creates Miracle Gun" (Silent) and "Owen Gun in Mass Production" featuring women at work manufacturing the Own Sub Machine Guns in the Lysaghts Factories in Newcastle, NSW.

The VHS Tape (Archives Shelf Location: A9099 lxviii) was donated by Mr Allen Stein as part of an extensive collection of material relating to the Owen Gun that he donated to the University of Newcastle's Archives from the 1990s to the early 2000s.

The VHS tape was digitised October 2021 at the GLAMx Audiovisual Digitisation Lab, Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle (Australia).

Courtesy University of Newcastle (Australia)
A9099(lxviii)_Owen Machine Gun

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