WWI - France, Actuality R1 of 5
On French mobilization - Troops.
09:12:54 French leaders: Marshall Joffre talking w/ General Pershing. President Raymond Poincaré walking along dirt road, reviews troops. MCU Senate President Antonin Dubost. MCU President of Chamber of Deputies Paul Deschanel walks past camera. Premier Paul Painleve talking w/ army officer outdoors. Minister of Foreign Affairs & former Premier Ribo walks w/ others to camera & CU. Gen Pétain out of building, decorates troops w/ kiss. Ex-Premier René Viviani walking & posin6 in garden.
09:16:30 French recruits given uniform, shoes, helmet; exercising bare-chested outdoors, callisthenics, physical training, jogging, broad jumping, high jumping, instruction in throwing grenades.
09:18:22 Troops marching in courtyard w/ men laying on ground spelling Long Live France, stand up & get into line.
09:19:21 Soldier’s peeling potatoes, eating in mess hall; rifle training & target practice; drilling.
09:20:40 Gen. Dubois speaks to troops; boarding train & waving from freight cars as they pass. Eating in temporary camp, horses & supplies. Defensive barbed wire fixed, telegraph & telephone wire strung on poles, radio antenna raised. String of men in trenches pulling cables away from camera.
09:24:02 Men in small boats building amphibious bridge & driving piles w/ winch. Officers watch. Sawing posts & laying beams. Large deck; horses & wagons across. Men building road w/ poles, wheeling stones on hillside. Narrow gauge railroad track laid & excavating hillside by hand. Large railroad built w/ men carrying beams, rails by hand & dropping in place. Steam engine past w/ flatcar. Horses pulling freight car w/ troops. Snow on ground. Steam train past w/ large artillery & trucks. VERY GOOD.
WW1 Construction; WWI;
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WWI - France, Actuality R1 of 5 On French mobilization - Troops. 09:12:54 French leaders: Marshall Joffre talking w/ General Pershing. President Raymond Poincaré walking along dirt road, reviews troops. MCU Senate President Antonin Dubost. MCU President of Chamber of Deputies Paul Deschanel walks past camera. Premier Paul Painleve talking w/ army officer outdoors. Minister of Foreign Affairs & former Premier Ribo walks w/ others to camera & CU. Gen Pétain out of building, decorates troops w/ kiss. Ex-Premier René Viviani walking & posin6 in garden. 09:16:30 French recruits given uniform, shoes, helmet; exercising bare-chested outdoors, callisthenics, physical training, jogging, broad jumping, high jumping, instruction in throwing grenades. 09:18:22 Troops marching in courtyard w/ men laying on ground spelling Long Live France, stand up & get into line. 09:19:21 Soldier’s peeling potatoes, eating in mess hall; rifle training & target practice; drilling. 09:20:40 Gen. Dubois speaks to troops; boarding train & waving from freight cars as they pass. Eating in temporary camp, horses & supplies. Defensive barbed wire fixed, telegraph & telephone wire strung on poles, radio antenna raised. String of men in trenches pulling cables away from camera. 09:24:02 Men in small boats building amphibious bridge & driving piles w/ winch. Officers watch. Sawing posts & laying beams. Large deck; horses & wagons across. Men building road w/ poles, wheeling stones on hillside. Narrow gauge railroad track laid & excavating hillside by hand. Large railroad built w/ men carrying beams, rails by hand & dropping in place. Steam engine past w/ flatcar. Horses pulling freight car w/ troops. Snow on ground. Steam train past w/ large artillery & trucks. VERY GOOD. WW1 Construction; WWI; NOTE: Entire or partial sold at per reel rate