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WWI - Newsreel Excerpts Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 220741-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1914-1918

Country: Germany,Greece,Macedonia,Russia,Turkey,USA

Location: Dardanelles,Salonika,Sedd-Ul-Bahr,Vardar River

TC Begins: 00:29:22

TC Ends: 00:40:06

Duration: 00:10:44

WWI - Newsreel Excerpts Pt. 1 of 2 Title: The French Advance - General Sarrail has pushed his troops across the Vardar. Title: French troops moving to their new positions. View across valley as soldiers march w/ pack mules w/ supplies across grassy field in mountainous area, others resting in background. Pan to show long line. 00:30:14 Title: Sedd-Ul-Bahr The bay at Cape Helles where the British troops were disembarked. Pan showing British soldiers on partially built dock, ship offshore, sunken in water. Small ships rock in water. 00:30:56 Title: Laying a narrow gauge railway up from the beach. Large steam tractor on sand w/ soldiers standing beside; winch cable pulling wagon w/ stone on rails. Men waving to camera from along track. 00:31:35 Title: Salonica The Greek Port on which the eyes of the world are fixed. Small barges anchored, tug moving about & men unroping boat from dock or floating pier. Pan over docks & large elevator building. Crowd. Freighter at dock, men in rowboats alongside. 00:32:48 Pad of title only. 00:32:56 Title: In Lorraine The Children Don The National Costume To Welcome The French Troops. French (?) officer on horseback, crowd watching, others saluting. Ceremony (?). 00:33:13 Title: Demonstration with the Dayfield Body Shield - man demonstrating light weight of body armor or bullet proof vest by swinging it around. 00:33:30 Title: America’s Coastal Defences - Big Gun Practice on the Coast. Large cannon fired seen from slightly above, men run in to reload. View of explosion in water. Firing another shot, smoke & Coastal gun firing at towed target. 00:34:23 Title: The Great Russian Army - The Troops of the Tzar Hardened To All Weather Are Preparing A Great Offensive. Troops in heavy coats & w/ rifles propped around eating as large snow flakes fall. 00:35:22 No snow. LS of road & convoy of military trucks & vehicles / ambulances along road. 00:35:39 Turkish? soldier smoking standing next to pennant with markings F.52 on one side & crescent moon & star on reverse. Airplane behind. 00:35:57 Officers standing above trench looking over field. Heavy destruction & artillery firing from dug in positions. Blacks & other soldiers. French (?) man oiling & fusing shell, raising gun barrel, loading & closing breech. Firing & preparing to reload, reloading, sighting & firing. French soldiers w/ camouflage netting over large mortar or ??, hoisting large shell & into barrel. Raising large railroad gun barrel by hand cranking. 00:38:58 Title: Sunk in the Dardanelles. Brief shot of 4-stack Turko-German light cruiser Breslau underway w/ large bridge behind. 00:39:20 Title: German leader Auf dem Schlachtfeld von Tannenberg. Gedenkfeier vor dem neuerrichteten Ehrenmal. Street parade w/ banners & military in street & march onto filed. Military ceremony in front of castle like building. German officers including von Hindenburg. Crowds watching. Continued... WW1 Gallipoli Campaign; NOTE: newsreels clips of various locations.

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