WWI - Mining Activity On the British Front

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - Mining Activity On the British Front Intertitle: “A party of tunnellers with stores & explosives are taken to an advanced post near the firing line in motor lorries.” Soldiers loading two trucks w/ cases / boxes & planks & wood for cribbing. Troops board trucks & leave. Men out of trucks at destination & wave to camera as they march past. Unload & carry crates. 19:12:48 “Entering the communication trenches.” Soldiers carrying crates singly & two w/ a pole down into trench. 19:13:02 “At the shaft head. A man equipped w/ oxygen apparatus reports...no danger from gas...” He climbs out of shaft wearing breathing equipment. 19:13:25 “Looking up the incline shaft from. Men descending w/ material.” Men come down; others entering w/ equipment & w/ timbers. Inside shaft, men fill sacks; passing them up. Moving timbers in for cribbing. 19:14:34 “An officer listening underground to the sound of German countermining. An order is given to commence charging the mine.” Cases of explosives are handed down; lowered on winch & carried along tunnel. Sacks put down to prevent back blast. Men leave mine, CU connecting detonator in open trench. 19:16:15 “Before the explosion the infantry take cover in a neighbouring crater on the Hohenzollern Redoubt.” Soldiers w/ rifles hurry down hillside. Officer checks watch; pushes plunger, huge explosion under German trenches w/ barbed wire in FG. Secondary explosions. 19:17:31 Infantry, some Scottish in kilts run across open ground. Troops in trenches setting up machine gun, pan around barren landscape. 19:18:32 CU as bullets fed thru machine gun. GOOD. Pan round barren deeply cratered landscape w/ soldiers inspecting. 19:19:24 The End. Fighting; Battles; Miners; Sneak Attack; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk