SCENES ON THE TRACK AROUND LIEVEN AIX AND NOULETTE [Main Title]

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  • Title: SCENES ON THE TRACK AROUND LIEVEN AIX AND NOULETTE [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 237
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  • Summary: Film taken from on board a moving light railway train in the British rear zones of the battlefield around Arras, Western Front, 1918.
  • Description: Only the brake-wheel can be seen of the train, and for part of the time a lance-corporal brakeman with his back to the camera. The track moves through the rubble, clay and destroyed villages of the area, passing a few soldiers on the way. At one point the ride is halted by sappers doing demolition work, at another the train halts next to a burnt out goods train. The train halts again to let another train pass over a set of crossing points, and to let soldiers load boxes from a lorry onto a goods truck. Otherwise the train is in motion for the duration of the film.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company) Buckstone, Walter A (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: transport, British military - rail: narrow gauge train & [+] (object name) destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) 01/3(4-15) (event) Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) Aix-Noulette, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) Aix-Noulette, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) camera (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 546 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet. Summary: see also IWM 271 CANADIAN SECTOR OF THE WESTERN FRONT IN JULY 1918. Remarks: the film gives an unusual view, which is curiously evocative. Series continuity: there is no film held under the numbers IWM 238 - IWM 239 inclusive.
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    IWM 237

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