Reel Number: 221789-09
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1918,1919,1910s
Country: France,USA
Location: Ardenne,Champagne,Harricourt,Lorraine,Sommedieue,Sorcy,Suippes
TC Begins: 19:07:28
TC Ends: 19:14:21
Duration: 00:06:53
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Post-WWI - 1918-19, France: Army Quartermaster Salvaging Efforts Soldiers in brushy woods gathering clothing & blankets. 19:07:48 Pan railroad cars loaded w/ scrap metal parked in railyard. 19:08:17 MS soldiers sorting metal outside building w/ sign: Salvage Office. LS pan of yard w/ piled steel & railroad tracks stacked. MS soldier pulling various metal. LS railroad car of unidentified scrap. Men around sheetmetal stove in yard w/ fire beneath. CU wagon wheels & ?? 19:09:51 Officers watch men put boxes to burn into stove. Pan across yard w/ men sorting salvaged material. Army truck leaving. Slow pan over blankets / clothes / baskets. Men sorting & carrying metal gun parts (?). Sorting clothes & blankets. 19:12:24 MLS troops unloading scrap from truck. Sorting cloth & metal including some helmets w/ horse drawn wagons passing across field behind. 19:13:39 Poorly exposed shot of bed bugs or ??? 19:13:51 Soldier in doorway holding ??? 19:14:06 MLS across stacked bundles of clothing, men sorting in background / BG, pan to wagons behind. Post-WW1 349th Infantry; Recycling; Waste; NOTE: NARA description: salvaged railroad track, harnesses & portable stoves unloaded from railroad cars at Sorcey. Shows railheads & salvage dumps at Suippes and Harricourt. Used clothing is sorted at Sommedieue. NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. Good quality.