Other titles:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 348-2 (Spanish version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
Summary: I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on Royal Navy ships in the English Channel, 1918.
II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on Bonar Law's "Victory Budget", April 1918.
III. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on a football match between rival teams of women workers in a park in Southend, April 1918.
IV. Spanish language version of a newsreel item referring to the Zeebrugge raid, April 1918.
Description: The film shows the monitor, HMS Erebus, on patrol, with two torpedo boats and two minesweepers at work in the Channel.
The item shows British troops digging a trench as part of the war effort, followed by a portrait shot of Bonar Law in a garden, by himself, then with a colleague on a bench. The caption suggests that both are contributing to the war effort.
The two teams emerge to play. The kick off and some of the action of the match are shown.
The film shows what it claims as the Zeebrugge mole before the war, with a ship docked alongside. (The ship is in fact a British Caledon Class cruiser in 1917 or 1918 at another location.) This is followed by dockyard workers walking along what, again, is claimed as the mole.
Alternative Title:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 348-2 (Spanish version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Law, Andrew Bonar (person)
Royal Navy, EREBUS (HMS), monitor (regiment/service)
British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, British naval - routine (object name)
ships, British naval - gunship: Erebus (object name)
ships, British naval - light forces: torpedo boat (object name)
politics, British - institutional (object name)
propaganda, British - inspirational (object name)
recreation, British civilian - sport: football (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Caledon Class (object name)
propaganda, British - inspirational (object name)
12/3(261.2).8 (event)
31/3(41) (event)
31/3(41) (event)
31/3(41) (event)
GB, England (geography)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK (geography)
(concept)
