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WWI / WW1 - Artillery; Destroyed Wagon & Officers; Barbed Wire Barricades; Canal & Troops

Reel Number: 221593-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1914-1918

Country: Belgium,France

Location: Flanders

TC Begins: 07:28:43

TC Ends: 07:37:51

Duration: 00:09:08

Artillery firing on horizon, dark clouds w/ smoke explosions. View across flat fields, army truck across on road. 07:29:28 Muddy road in front of stone retaining wall, soldiers walk along towards destroyed houses / buildings. MS medics out of brick building, pick up small piece of horse or ?? beside destroyed wagon ; walk on across street & into bullet scarred building. 07:30:31 Soldiers roll barbed wire & log barricade & add more barbed wire; carry sections into place to block road. 07:32:00 Soldier sitting on trench edge reading mail; pan to men in trenches. Line of men quickly file into canvas covered fox hole. 07:32:52 Man w/ bicycle, young girl & boys w/ bags over shoulders watch soldiers at bridge across canal lock, then walk past army truck on canal path. Soldiers along cobblestone road & cross bridge over canal. Others walk past camera, along camouflaged barbed wire. GOOD 07:34:41 View past troops / officers standing along dry road, long line of mounted troops pulling wagons past. 07:35:41 View across bridge over canal, soldiers watch cows or oxen herded across by soldiers w/ sticks. Women & children w/ buggy along road; boy pushing large wheel barrow stopped by soldier. 07:36:42 Reflection of horses & wagons along canal path seen in water. Horses & wagons in MLS. Good. WWI; WW1; Fighting;

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