AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS AT CAPORETTO 1 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS AT CAPORETTO 1 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1047-1
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  • Summary: Hungarian film of Austro-Hungarian troops on the Italian Front, probably during the Battle of Caporetto, October-November 1917.
  • Description: Austro-Hungarians on the march in the battle zone, moving up past transport. They include stormtroops and a bridge building platoon. Other troops march down the roads, or wait at the roadside. Italian prisoners are marched back. There is snow on the ground in some of the scenes. An overturned truck lies beside a mountain stream. Two horses cross a ford, with smoke and mountains in the background. Groups of captured Italian heavy guns of various calibres. The troops march up the road one way, the Italian prisoners come back down the other. An Austrian discovers a dead body (acted) and removes his hat in reverence. Austro-Hungarian walking wounded move back along the roads. More abandoned Italian equipment by the roadside. A shot from a lorry on the move. The march continues, including some refugees and prisoners crossing a footbridge over a river.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1047-1)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: Hungary
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Austro-Hungarian Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, Austro-Hungarian military - movement: march (object name) prisoners of war, Italian - movement (object name) spoils, Austro-Hungarian (object name) animals, mammals: horse (object name) casualties, Austro-Hungarian dead - battlefield (object name) refugees, Italian - flight (object name) casualties, Austro-Hungarian wounded - battlefield (object name) medical, Austro-Hungarian military - movement (object name) 01/3(45).70 [1917 Caporetto] (?) (event) Italy & Caporetto area, Friuli (geography) snow (concept) camera (concept) mountains (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: Hungarian
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 565 ft; Running time: 9 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Soundtrack: the soundtrack to this film consists of military music, and was presumably added by the BBC for its own purposes Remarks: jumbled and difficult to follow. It is not clear how much of this material relates directly to Caporetto
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1047-1

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