SCENES IN CAMBRAI 1 [Main Title]

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  • Title: SCENES IN CAMBRAI 1 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 339
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  • Summary: The town of Cambrai after its capture by Canadian 3rd Division, Western Front, 8th October 1918.
  • Description: Canadian transport wagons move through the streets, crowded with civilians. More civilians cross a fragile-looking plank bridge over the river, which has replaced a damaged iron bridge. Marching columns and 6-inch 26cwt howitzers cross another bridge. Two of the howitzers, which are lorry-drawn, are draped with the French flag and one with the US flag. Areas of Cambrai are still on fire. A hay store burns fiercely as troops attempt to salvage some items. In the main square one building is already gutted by fire, which spreads to the others. Brigadier-General D C Draper of 8th Brigade, Canadian 3rd Division, consults a map with members of his staff on the middle of the square. More buildings are in flames. A German prisoner is escorted through a street filled with smoke.
  • 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: Draper, D C (person) Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Div 3, Bde 8 (regiment/service) British Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Div 3, Bde 8 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, Canadian military - movement (object name) destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) destruction, French: fire (object name) weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer & [Canadian] (object name) equipment, Canadian military - navigational: map (object name) prisoners of war, German - movement (object name) 01/3(4-15).9 (event) Cambrai, Nord, France (geography)
  • 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: 461 ft; Running time: 8 mins
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet Summary: see also IWM 345
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 339

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