VISIT OF CANADIAN PRESSMEN - SCENES IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE [Main Title]

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  • Title: VISIT OF CANADIAN PRESSMEN - SCENES IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 310
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  • Summary: The visit of a delegation of prominent Canadian newsmen to England and France as guests of the Ministry of Information, July 1918.
  • Description: A party in the garden of Lord Beaverbrook's home at Cherkley Court on 14th July for the journalists and some prominent Canadian politicians. Shown in portrait shot are Sir Edward Kemp, the Canadian Minister for Overseas Forces, T C Norris, the Premier of Manitoba, George Stewart, the Premier of Alberta, and W W Martin, the Premier of Saskatchewan. The journalists are shown round the Canadian Training Division at its training grounds at Bramshot and Witley, Aldershot Command. Brigadier-General H F McDonald takes the salute as one battalion marches past. In France General Sir Arthur Currie, the Canadian Corps commander, shows the men over the old Vimy Ridge battlefield. The journalists pose with Field Marshal Haig on the steps of his Château de Beaurepaire at Montreuil on 22nd July. At Hangest on 27th July they watch the Canadian Cavalry Brigade pass by in company with its commander, Brigadier-General R W Paterson. They look over Hazebruck and then go on to Ypres in a light railway train. Film taken from the train shows the remains of the Cloth Hall, which they investigate. At Verdun they are escorted by French Army guides to a high point for an overall view and are then taken into one of the deep dugouts. They leave for England from Boulogne in a camouflaged passenger ship on 29th July.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 310
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Aitken, William Maxwell, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (person) Kemp, Edward (person) Norris, T C (person) Stewart, George (person) Martin, W W (person) McDonald, Harold F (person) Currie, Arthur William (person) Haig, Douglas (person) Paterson, R W (person) British Army (regiment/service) French Army (regiment/service) Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Training Div (regiment/service) Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Cavalry Bde (regiment/service) British Army, Canadian Cavalry Bde, Div 3 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: buildings, Belgian - historic: Cloth Hall, Ypres & [wrecked] (object name) delegations, Canadian national - goodwill (object name) delegations, Canadian international - goodwill (object name) delegations, Canadian Imperial - goodwill (object name) training, Canadian military (object name) buildings, British - military: headquarters (British Expeditionary Force) (object name) transport, Canadian military - rail: narrow gauge train & [+] (object name) destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) journalism and record, British - press (object name) journalism and record, Canadian - press (object name) 31/3(41) (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) GB, England & Mickleham, Surrey <Cherkley Court> (geography) GB, England & Aldershot area, Hants <Bramshot & Witley> (geography) Vimy Ridge, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) Château de Beaurepaire, Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) Hangest-sur-Somme, Somme, France (geography) Cloth Hall, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium (geography) Hazebrouck, Nord, France (geography) Verdun, Meuse, France (geography) Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) camera (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 465 ft; Running time: 9 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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