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WWI - British War Reviews R2 of 6 (Mud, Artillery, Firing Various Large Guns; Cavalry Hit; German Prisoners)

Reel Number: 220712-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1914-1918

Country: Belgium,France

Location:

TC Begins: 12:00:19

TC Ends: 12:16:28

Duration: 00:16:09

WWI - British War Reviews R2 of 6 Title: “Then the Tommies go forward...” Massive number of British infantry along road. Across field w/ barbed wire fences in single file, down into trench smiling for camera. Out of dug in bivouac. 12:02:45 Officers standing; tractors past. Officers into large cars (King?). 12:03:27 Large tank HMS Intimidate no. 154 pulling large artillery gun w/ mud slowly past line of troops. 12:04:16 Title. “While in France the British motor car...” Armored trucks & motorcycles towards front past troops carrying wounded returning. 12:05:42 Cavalry riding, pulling wagon past on dirt road. Explosions on field & horses walked by soldiers. 12:06:40 Title: Flanders’ canals are handy for bringing ammunition up to the batteries. Canal w/ dock, temporary train track along parallel, men loading shells onto barges, passing them hand to hand. 12:07:20 Title: But Flanders’ mud makes rough sledding for bringing up the guns themselves. Pulling by hand w/ lever out of deep mud. Jacking up wheel & moving along road (GOOD). 12:08:40 Firing artillery from under cover; in long line; from dug in positions in empty field. LS & MCU. From camouflaged sandbagged positions; w/ large gun barrel firing. Heavy gun firing from beneath netting. Dug in guns fired & fired from inside barn. Field guns firing quickly. Australian troops? Other firing very large guns kicking back. 12:12:18 Large railroad gun fired & recoil. Field guns recoiling. Burying dead in field (some w/ frame line showing). 12:13:08 Troops along road, horses pulling wagons of ammunition. Big explosions. Men sitting eating in trench. Tanks in field, men moving up?. 12:13:48 Germans carrying wounded on stretcher up muddy road thru barren landscape. Standing & eating, large group, posing. 12:14:31 Horsemen crossing empty field & on dirt road. Explosion near road leaving dead horses, others run, men return & go to horses. 12:15:30 Title; “But Britain collects heavy damages from the yielding foe---57,318 prisoners in one month.” 12:15:40 Pan over massed prisoners in MS standing about w/ coats & blankets, smoking. WW1; World War One; British Propaganda; British Troops; Mud, Artillery, Firing Various Large Guns; Cavalry Hit; German Prisoners of War; POWs; Fighting;

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