WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 361-2 (French version, fragment) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 361-2 (French version, fragment) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 678b
  • Other titles: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 361-2 (French version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: I. French language version of a newsreel item on the visit of leading Canadian journalists to the Canadian Training Division at Bramshot and Witley, near Aldershot, July 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel item on Viscount French watching a Boy Scout meeting in the grounds of Dublin Castle, July 1918. III. French language version of a newsreel item on Boy Scouts collecting kitchen refuse, to be used in gasmask manufacture, from Buckingham Palace, July 1918. IV. French language version of a newsreel item on Sir Robert Borden receiving the freedom of Cardiff while opening an exhibition of Canadian War Photographs, July 1918. V. French language version of a newsreel item on 'J' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, manoeuvring at high speed, rear areas of the Western Front, 20th June 1918.
  • Description: The journalists watch a demonstration of trench fighting in the training trenches. They inspect the trenches. The men of the division march past, and their commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, takes the salute. The Scouts parade in the castle grounds and French walks down to inspect them. Next to him is, possibly, Lieutenant-General R S S Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout. The Scouts perform a 'charge', carrying a Union Jack, across the castle lawns, then give three cheers. The Scouts are collecting fruit peel and nut shells, which are used to make the carbon for filters in gasmasks. They collect the baskets of refuse from the palace kitchens, emptying the baskets into their barrow, which they wheel out through the gates. Borden, the Canadian Prime Minister, is shown with the Mayor and officials of Cardiff seated in the picture gallery with the Canadian photographs on the walls behind them. Directly behind them is a famous 'over the top' photograph by Ivor Castle, the Canadian Official Photographer (which was in fact of a training exercise). A portrait shot of Borden. The captions describe the battery incorrectly as field artillery and suggest that it forms part of an Allied counterstroke in the Second Battle of the Marne. The men and guns of the battery splash at a canter through a shallow stream and up over a ridge (one of the limbers can be seen overturned). The battery halts and starts to deploy.
  • Alternative Title: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 361-2 (French version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 678b
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-07-25
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Meighan, F S (person) French, John Denton Pinkstone (person) Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth (person) Borden, Robert Laird (person) Cardiff, Mayor of (person) British Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Training Division (regiment/service) Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Training Div (regiment/service) Boy Scouts (regiment/service) Boy Scouts (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Horse Artillery, J Battery (regiment/service) British Army, Div, Cavalry, 2 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: delegations, Canadian national - informative (object name) training, Canadian military (object name) training, Canadian military - combat: trench fighting (object name) journalism and record, Canadian - press (object name) buildings, Irish - institutional: castle (object name) buildings, British - institutional: Buckingham Palace (object name) propaganda, British - practical (object name) industry, British - munitions: gasmasks (object name) propaganda, Canadian - inspirational (object name) delegations, Canadian Imperial - state (object name) arts, Canadian - fine arts: photography (object name) operations, British military - routine: horse artillery & [+] (object name) training, British military - weapons: horse artillery (object name) 31/3(41) (event) 31/3(415) (event) 31/3(41) (event) 31/3(41) (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) GB, England & Aldershot area, Hants <Bramshot & Witley> (geography) GB, Ireland & Dublin, Co Dublin <Dublin Castle> (geography) GB, England & London, SW <Buckingham Palace> (geography) GB, Wales & Cardiff, Glam (geography) France (geography) Belgium (geography) Instruction (concept) half-light (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: French
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 266 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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