WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 362-1 (fragment) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 362-1 (fragment) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1128a
  • Other titles: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 362-1 (fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Incomplete newsreel devoted to a review of the British Empire's war effort 1914-1918.
  • Description: Lord Kitchener visits New Army soldiers in France in February 1916. Australians of 2nd Division in bush hats march past. Gurkhas of 7th (Meerut) Division, also on the march in the pouring rain, and Lloyd George addressing a Canadian division at Aldershot from a car, with Sir Sam Hughes watching (note the reporters recording the speech) all illustrate the increasing role of the Empire in the war. Highlanders led by a pipe band march through an English village in 1916, contrasted with an apparently unending marching column of 1918 veterans in their shrapnel helmets, typical of the current British Army. Douglas Haig sits with A J Balfour on a bench in Versailles. The film ends with the War Office Official Topical Budget logo.
  • Alternative Title: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 362-1 (fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 1128a
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-07-29
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Haig, Douglas (person) Balfour, Arthur James (person) Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (person) Lloyd George, David (person) Hughes, Samuel (person) British Army (regiment/service) British Army, Highlanders (regiment/service) Australian Army, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Division (regiment/service) British Army, Australian Imperial Force, Div 2 (regiment/service) Indian Army, 7th (Meerut) Division (regiment/service) Indian Army, Gurkhas (regiment/service) Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: propaganda, British - inspirational (object name) operations, British military - movement: march (object name) journalism and record, British - press (object name) equipment, British - personal: bagpipes (object name) 01/3(4-15) (event) France (geography) GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 148 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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