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WWI - 1917-1918 (?): French Troops, Heavy Artillery & Shells; Bethlehem; French Officers Card 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221788-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1910s,1917,1918

Country: France,Palestine,USA

Location: Bethlehem,Middle East,Versailles

TC Begins: 16:43:54

TC Ends: 16:49:51

Duration: 00:05:57

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - 1917-1918 (?): French Troops, Heavy Artillery & Shells; Bethlehem; French Officers Card 2 of 2 NOTE: Related shots on 2 cards intercut. Continued... Flash main title card: Document Officiels...de L’Armee Francaise. Les Annales de la Guerre no. 55. 191?. Flash intertitle: A Ruee Allemande Sur Le Front Occidental. Le 21 Mars 1918, les Allemands ont declenche sur le front... Des le 23 Mars l’aile gauche... French (?) troops march w/ packs & rifles to railroad boxcars & climb on board. (out of focus) 16:44:12 Column of heavy artillery pulled behind army trucks w/ soldiers passing on country road. GOOD. 16:44:35 Flash intertitle: Les munitions son dirigees avant (?). Black soldiers moving large shells i& load into trucks in ammunition dump / storage area - stacked crates. Trucks along road 16:45:02 Black slug. 16:45:11 Flash titles: L’Armee Anglaise En Mesopotamie; Les troupes anglaises defilent...de Bethleem. Soldiers & officers marching l. to r. past watching Arabs on street & building roof in background. 16:45:39 Marching r. to l. from same camera position. Nuns & officers watch in foreground. 16:46:01 Flash title: Dans le desert, construction observatoire. Large tower of being constructed w/ sandbags pulled up along poles w/ ropes. 16:46:32 Soldier on snow puts on skis & strides off; others skiing down small hill from roadside; herringbone up other side in sun. 16:47:20 Ski down past r. to l. LS across mountain valley. 16:47:40 Flash title: Quelques sauts. Ski past r. to l. off small jump & mls of falling. Other soldiers in berets watching. 16:48:15 Flash title: Monsieur Baker...visite un secteur Americain. (Secretary of War Newton Baker) Beside large car w/ French & American officers (very brief of Baker). 16:48:25 Baker & several other civilians & French officers looking at heavily damaged building. 16:48:28 Slug. 16:48:31 Civilian crowd in street, marchers w/ flags passing & military band marching (brief). French troops at large railroad (?) gun under camouflage netting, raising barrel. 16:49:01 Versailles conference interior w/ some delegates standing, talking; others seated. GOOD 16:49:36 Boys wave flags on raised artillery barrel of gun parked in Paris (?), civilians & soldiers watch, cars pass in street behind. WW1; Middle East; Palestine; NOTE: If requested will provide 16:38:35 - 16:49:51(2 cards) or any part at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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