CANADIAN SECTIONS 2 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: CANADIAN SECTIONS 2 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1189
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: Fragmentary film of Canadian troops on the Western Front, probably during the Battle of Arras, April 1917.
  • Description: Sunrise over a battlefield. Canadians at a front-line machine gun post open fire. Canadian wounded are brought through to the rear areas of a battle, with German prisoners helping as stretcher-bearers. At a first aid post the stretchers are loaded into a motor ambulance. German prisoners have been led back to a rear-area village, where Canadian soldiers pick up their packs and go back up the line. German prisoners, one in body-armour, sit by a tent and shake lice out of their clothing. Portrait shots of German prisoners showing various degrees of nervousness and fatigue. In a quarry in the rear troops eat and drink; a chaplain offers drinks to tired and wounded men. German and Canadian stretcher-bearers, working together, share drinks and biscuits. In a trench one party of soldiers relieves another (one man deliberately shakes hands with another). A final view of a laughing soldier.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Canadian War Records Office (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: medical, Canadian military - movement (object name) prisoners of war, German - movement (object name) prisoners of war, German - reception: [+] (object name) operations, Canadian military - sortie (object name) equipment, German - personal: body armour (object name) society, German military - hygiene (object name) religion, Christianity - military, Canadian (object name) society, Canadian military - sustenance (object name) society, Canadian military - friendship (object name) society, German military - friendship (object name) 01/3(4-15) (event) 01/3(4-15).63 (?) (event) France (geography) Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) half-light (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: 668 ft; Running time: 11 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Remarks: some very good material which, sadly, cannot be positively dated
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1189

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