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Title:SCENES ON THE TRACK AROUND LIEVEN AIX AND NOULETTE [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 237
Other titles:
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.
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)
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 546 ft; Running time: 10 mins
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.