PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 9 [Main Title]

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  • Title: PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 9 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 501-9
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  • Summary: US film of their own forces showing the battlefield of the Second Battle of the Marne and troops during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Western Front, October 1918.
  • Description: Troops repairing bridges throw rocks to splash the camera. Varennes (where, in July, 3rd Division earned the title 'Marne') showing extensive damage. An American discovering a German booby trap (acted) with a demonstration of how they work. A US Signal Corps wireless station at Villeret. A patrol in a wood checks apparently dead Germans (acted?). American dugouts in the hills near Varennes. 75mm guns moving into position in the Cuisy area. American troops attacking under shellfire in the Meuse advance. German prisoners being put onto a train. "Gotham Boys", presumably 27th (New York) Division at Ronssoy, their divisional headquarters, in September. A field signal unit demonstrates a mechanical wire-twister. Transport of 35th Division moving through the ruins of Cheppy. A pile of loaves showing the rations for one division for one day. Limbers of the Field Artillery move up while observers use trench periscopes. 155mm guns of V Corps on the Exermont road. US Engineers repair a girder bridge. An overturned 155mm gun on the road. A posed group of German prisoners. A view of Exermont with Côte 240 behind it, 35th Division area. American and French officers in an observation post at the base of a hill. US Infantry crouched in foxholes in a wood, then advancing in short rushes from hole to hole.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 501-9
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 501-9)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1919
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: United States Army General Staff, Historical Branch, War Plans Division (Production sponsor) US Signal Corps (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) United States Army & Signal Corps (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 27 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 35 (regiment/service) United States Army & Corps 5 & [gunners] (regiment/service) United States Army & Engineers (regiment/service) French Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: engineering, military, United States (object name) destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) weapons, German - passive: booby-trap & [captured] (object name) communications, United States military - electronic (object name) casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name) weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun & [United States] (object name) prisoners of war, German - movement (object name) transport, United States military - rail (object name) transport, United States military - animal (object name) supplies, United States, storage [RA] - food (object name) equipment, United States - personal: trench periscope (object name) combat, United States (object name) combat, United States - artillery bombardment [I] (object name) 01/3(4-15).96 (event) Varennes, Somme, France (geography) Villeret, Aisne, France (geography) Cuisy, Meuse, France (geography) Ronssoy, Somme, France (geography) Cheppy, Meuse, France (geography) Exermont, Ardennes, France (geography) Côte 240, Verdun, Meuse, 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: 1093 ft; Running time: 18 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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