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WWI - 1918, French War Reviews R2 of 5

Reel Number: 220732-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1918

Country: Balkans,Czechoslovakia,France,Germany,Greece

Location: Longmont,St Quentin

TC Begins: 10:31:17

TC Ends: 10:47:06

Duration: 00:15:49

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - ca 1918, France: St. Quentin Fighting w/ Injured & Dead; Longmont; Balkans w/ Poincare Intertitle: “And soon a few come back with their string of prisoners.” French troops on foot & in tanks escort Prisoners of War up dirt road. Walking wounded. 10:32:42 Intertitle: “A German tank is captured...” French soldiers in trenches. Tank on its side; bodies of German dead as fallen. Wounded or dead carried on stretcher; pushed across field on cart. Troops walk up steep road. Man on crutches helped out of damaged building. 10:33:56 Intertitle. German POWs soldiers laying on ground or sitting in camp. 10:34:17 Flash title: “St. Quentin once more became a desperate battlefield as the Franco-British-American forces beat the enemy back from the Hindenburg line”. Pan troops & military equipment in valley. French cavalry along road past ruins. Large LTA observation balloon carried; rising w/ basket below, vehicle w/ cable to balloon past on road. Troops & supplies moving to front. Light artillery fired. LS pan across explosions on barren land w/ trenches visible; anti-aircraft guns fired to protect balloon. Digging emplacements or trenches along roadside. Wrecked German equipment including tank; pan destroyed landscape. Troops rest in ruined town, moving thru. Run for cover. Dead horses w/ wagons. Medic & dead French soldier. Pan movement to front & trenches dug. MS Wounded on stretchers carried to ambulances & column of ambulances past. Troops & supplies moving to the front; armored cars, motorcycles. German prisoners. Tanks l. to r. Troops on horseback. 10:40:43 Flash title: “French & Americans, side by side, prepare to push on once more where the Germans are forced back across the Marne”. Pan French soldiers in sandbagged position & in trench. Troops digging in grass along road. Move across wide grassy field; around treeline. Wounded, injured & POWs coming back from the front. 10:43:27 Intertitle re entering Longmont, troops & wagons. Ruins of abbey, damaged buildings, troops move across field past waterfilled craters. Wagons & troops along road 10:44:56 Intertitle: “In the Balkans...General D’Espere, Commander in Chief, greets the Commanders of the Allied Forces of Salonika”. High ranking French & Greek officers shaking hands & saluting. 10:45:16 Intertitle: :Here is the beginning of a nation - President Poincaré reviews the first regiment of Czecho-Slovaks...” Civilians & military VIPs reviewing massed troops on field. Soldiers march past w/ unit flags & bayoneted rifles. Black soldier visible. WW1; Medical; Battles; Fighting; Destruction; Death; 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

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