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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220737-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1916
Country: France
Location: Fleury,Fort Douaumont,Verdun
TC Begins: 19:49:05
TC Ends: 19:58:26
Duration: 00:09:21
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - 1916, France: Remains of Fort Douaumont In Snow. ca Oct-Dec16 Pan Fleury battlefield covered in light snow; across rolling hills. 19:49:33 Intertitle: Douaumont - Official communique, 24Oct16.... (French). 19:49:58 Pan heavy snow on hillside w/ cave openings, men out & hurry along snow-covered path, pan continues showing closer view of rocky cliff w/ caves. 19:50:50 Intertitle. Snow covered remains of Fort Douaumont, w/ ponds in craters among rubble. Soldiers walking down snowy, icy windblown path. 19:52:04 Intertitle. Sentry beside snowy cave entrance. View out of cave to arriving French soldier. 19:52:32 Interior of stone lined passageway. (brief). 19;52:41 MS pan of soldiers slipping on ice & muddy path, pan snow covered landscape. View from cave entrance w/ barbed wire protection. Passageway having been bombed - festoons of wiring or reinforcing. Soldiers enter passageway; pose outside w/ walking sticks. 19:54:11 Intertitle: Noel. Still photograph of Christmas service held at Fort Douaumont. Sentry beside cave entrance; many others exiting past. Officers from the fort pose for camera. 19:54:45 German machine gun left behind. seen from inside. French soldiers walking towards remaining concrete (?) defense position on summit in snow. 19:55:22 LS troops walking along snow covered ridgeline (?). Pulling wood on wagons on hillside path enroute to the fort. Small explosions in air above snowy remains of the fort & nearby on plain. 19:56:33 Intertitle: Vaux. Intertitle of events leading to the French retaking of the fort on 01Nov16. 19:56:57 Cave entrance in destroyed fort remains; pan ice / snow on rocky cliff face. Pan to large openings & soldier w/ pick. 19:57:34 Intertitle. Soldier running away from camera down hill; two soldiers w/ rifles run towards camera. Explosion beyond near rocks; soldiers, one w/ gas mask, running up crater toward camera. 19:58:20 Men emerge from fort’s cave entrance covered w/ reinforcing rods. WW1; Destruction; Battles; Fighting; Christmas; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk