WWI - 1918-19, France: Medical Department Base Hospitals In Intermediate & Advanced Zones

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - 1918-19, France: Military Hospital Construction; Wounded w/ Nurses; Sec. Baker, Gen. bliss Dijon, France. View into tent as officer w/ goatee bandages hand of injured soldier. 03:13:38 Two Black (?) soldiers, one limping walk thru yard of stacked lumber w/ hospital (?) barracks under construction behind. Pan prefab trusses. MS 6th Engineers surveying on hospital site as men work unloading lumber, pounding w/ sledge hammers & putting up walls. 03:14:45 Two officers pose among workers. Sentry outside entrance 03:15:08 Rimacourt hospital Interior, pan patients in beds, playing guitars, etc. Visited by French General. 03:15:51 Ext. nurse w/ French & ?? officers posing, laughing. 03:16:07 Stretcher & injured carried out, put on cart, shakes hands w/ nurses & many carts & stretchers wheeled to troop train & loaded aboard railroad passenger cars. Truck w/ walking wounded arrives & men helped down & onto train. 03:19:06 CU map of Sommedieue area & pencil moved along front line (?). 03:19:38 LS from top of hill overlooking hospital complex w/ Red Crosses on top of buildings. 03:19:56 Sentry box & soldier / guard of 5th Marines w/ bayoneted rifle. LS across open area to two story building w/ Red Cross on roof, injured walking; troops marching. MCU receiving treats from Red Cross worker. Officer writing letter (?) as soldier w/ arm in sling dictates & women watch. 03:21:47 Paris. Nurse sits down beside soldier on stretcher smoking cigar in sunshine. Fluffs pillows for others. Soldier whittling on end of crutch. CU nurse laughing. Pan row of nurses outside stone building to military officers on parade ground receiving decorations. Talking w/ US officer. 03:24:30 Civilian wedding couple out of Hotel de Ville in Chaumont, walk beneath raised rifles, followed by other military & civilians w/ French officer & bride, pose. 03:25:14 Soldiers walk on grounds of YMCA (?). 03:25:37 Secretary of War Baker & Army Chief of Staff General Tasker Bliss visit patients at Vittel & Le Bourget. Large number of officers out & down steps. Orchestra / band playing in front of hospital w/ Baker & Bliss sitting listening, military standing behind. Pan nurses seated & standing. 03:27:05 MS Baker & woman; General Bliss & young woman pose talking. Baker standing behind group of seated patients. Talking w/ troops in uniform. 03:27:54 Baker & Bliss w/ other officers leaving hospital & into large US Army car w/ military driver.. 03:28:22 Pan over town rooftops at base of mountains. WW1; 1919; Military Relaxing; Tobacco Promotion; Nursing; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk