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WWI - 1916 - 1917, Verdun: Refugees, Poor & Wealthy, w/ Bundles & Trunks; Soldiers In Action

Reel Number: 221806-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1910s,1916,1917

Country: France,Germany

Location: Verdun

TC Begins: 02:12:44

TC Ends: 02:15:54

Duration: 00:03:10

WWI - 1916 - 1917, Verdun: Refugees, Poor & Wealthy, w/ Bundles & Trunks; Soldiers In Action German soldiers in trench (brief); crossing no-man’s land thru smoke & burned trees; into trench (staged). German intertitle re Verdun. 02:13:04 Poorly dressed refugees w/ bundles, children & carts thru railyard. Soldier watches in background standing in front of railroad freight car w/ other soldiers. 02:13:30 High angle / HA well-dressed refugees carrying trunks & large bundles across railroad tracks & along railroad car; seen loading bundles from inside freight car. MS of two old women & other people walking along tracks. Women in long dresses, some in wooden shoes (?). 02:14:25 Intertitle - German re Hill 304, Verdun (ca Aug17). German (?) soldiers carry stretcher past collapsed dirt embankment. Overhead of soldiers w/ packs moving thru lighted tunnel or ?? (staged). German in front of bunk lighting cigarette with candle; another demands one. Slug. German officers in room (?), soldiers get up and leave w/ grenades. Germans w/ machine gun packs seen silhouetted beneath destroyed concrete ceiling - leaving. 02:15:48 Review view looking down into sandbag & barbed wire protected entrance as soldiers move about. WW1; 1910s; Horrors of War; Fighting; Battles; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.

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