THE GREAT WAR 20 : Only War, Nothing but War (Clémenceau) [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE GREAT WAR 20 : Only War, Nothing but War (Clémenceau) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1065-20
  • Other titles: ONLY WAR, NOTHING BUT WAR (Clémenceau) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: The mobilisation of new technologies for total war in Britain and Germany, 1917-1918.
  • Description: By the start of 1918 the Western Front remained central to the war, and still deadlocked. Behind this front the war had become a "conflict of peoples", all held to the image of absolute victory by their governments, which distorted the news through censorship of the press, cinema, telegraphy and faked photographs. "Total hate sustained the demand for total victory." Starvation became a weapon of victory, 700,000 German men, women and children dying through the Allied blockade. Germany built the first cargo-carrying submarines, which crossed the Atlantic, to beat the blockade. In February 1917 Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare, and in April Allied losses reached 550,000 tons of shipping. The British adopted convoys, depth charges and hydrophones to beat the submarines. They armed their merchant ships, used ship-launched aircraft, and introduced Q ships. In Britain there was rationing, but no starvation. Women were employed as farm labourers. In every industry the individual became subordinate to the war machine. "Nations came to accept the breaking down of traditions." In France and Germany labour was stretched to the limit, and disabled men or women employed in farms or factories. The needs of the war industry often led to higher wages and better treatment of the workforce. The Germans launched an aerial bombing campaign with Zeppelin airships, and the first raid by Gotha bombers, which were more effective, om 13th June 1917. The British introduced an Air Raid Warning system. Night bombing started in autumn 1917, and Allied bombers hit back at the industrial Rhineland. The concept of non-combatants was fading. Women gained an importance the pre-war suffragettes could never give them, and in 1918 were given the vote in Britain. In 1917 the new mustard gas was introduced, and on 23rd March 1918 the Germans opened fire on Paris with three long range guns, each with a range of 75 miles - a supreme technological achievement. Modern war was a matter of innovation and improvement in technology. But still there was no victory for either side.
  • Alternative Title: ONLY WAR, NOTHING BUT WAR (Clémenceau) [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: IWM 1065-20
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: NON-IWM: PROJECTION PRINT ONLY - NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1964
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Production sponsor) Imperial War Museum (Production sponsor) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Production sponsor) BBC (Production company) Essex, Tony (Production individual) Watkins, Gordon (Production individual) Terraine, John Alfred1921-01-152003-12-27 (Production individual) Rollins, Ed (Production individual) Manefield, Tom (Production individual) Barnett, Correlli Douglas (Production individual) Jarvis, Anne (Production individual) Hipple, Rex (Production individual) Kay Film Laboratories (Production individual) Bigman, Richard (Production individual) Caravel Films (Production individual) McWatt, John (Production individual) Garland, Nicholas1935 (Production individual) Saunders, Robert (Production individual) Read, Bill (Production individual) Keene, Brian (Production individual) Callaway, Ian (Production individual) Bosworth, Pam (Production individual) Carr, Norman (Production individual) Heelas, Peter (Production individual) Toovey, Barry (Production individual) Cave, Julia (Production individual) Broadway, Anne (Production individual) Bryen, Doris (Production individual) Kersey, Jill (Production individual) Davidson, Eric (Production individual) Vigne, Jean (Production individual) Mendelsohn, Robyn (Production individual) Maloney, William (Production individual) Macloughlin, Marya (Production individual) Maros, Basil (Production individual) Virgo, Myrtle (Production individual) Descendre, Anne (Production individual) Edwards, Jeffrey (Production individual) Parry, Audrey (Production individual) Shukman, Harold (Production individual) Kuehl, Jerome (Production individual) Barrie, Alexander (Production individual) Hastings, Max Hugh Macdonald1945-12-28Researcher, BBC TV Great War series, 1963–64; Reporter, Evening Standard, 1965–67; Fellow, US World Press Inst., 1967–68; Roving Correspondent, Evening Standard, 1968–70; Reporter, BBC TV Current Affairs, 1970–73; Editor, Evening Standard Londoner’s Diary, 1976–77; Columnist, Daily Express, 1981–83; contributor, Sunday Times, 1985–86; Editor, The Daily Telegraph, 1986–95; Dir, 1989–95, Editor-in-Chief, 1990–95, The Daily Telegraph plc; Editor, The Evening Standard, 1996–2002; contributor, Daily Mail, 2002–; Contrib. Ed., Financial Times, 2009–13. As War Correspondent, covered Middle East, Indochina, Angola, India-Pakistan, Cyprus, Rhodesia and S Atlantic. Mem., Press Complaints Commn, 1991–92. Churchill Fellow, Westminster Coll., Fulton, Mo, 2011. TV documentaries: Ping-Pong in Peking, 1971; The War about Peace, 1983; Alarums and Exercursions, 1984; Cold Comfort Farm, 1985; The War in Korea (series), 1988; We Are All Green Now, 1990; Spies, in series Cold War, CNN, 1998; Hitler’s Germany, 2000; The Falklands: reluctant heroes, 2002; Winston’s War, 2003; The Falklands Legacy, 2012; The Necessary War, 2014. A Vice Pres., Game Conservancy, 1992–; President: CPRE, 2002–07; Sir Walter Scott Soc. of Edinburgh, 2012–13. Trustee: Nat. Portrait Gall., 1995–2004; Game Conservancy, 2014–. Liddell-Hart Lecture, KCL, 1994; Mountbatten Lecture, Edinburgh Univ., 2004; Leonard Stein Lectures, Oxford Univ., 2009. FRHistS 1988; FRSL 1996. Hon FKC, 2004. Hon. DLitt: Leicester, 1992; Nottingham, 2005. Journalist of the Year, British Press Awards, 1982 (cited 1973 and 1980); What The Papers Say, Granada TV: Reporter of the Year, 1982; Editor of the Year, 1988; Duke of Westminster Medal for military literature, RUSI, 2008; Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement, Chicago Pritzker Library, 2012; Friuladria Prize, Gorizia Internat. Hist. Fest., 2014 (Production individual) Liddell Hart, Basil Henry1895-10-311970-01-29 (Production individual) Terraine, John Alfred1921-01-152003-12-27 (Production individual) Barnett, Correlli Douglas (Production individual) Pitt, Barrie (Production individual) Horne, Alistair1925Trustee of the Imperial War Museum (Production individual) Bonham-Carter, Victor (Production individual) Williams, John (Production individual) Josephs, Wilfred (Production individual) BBC Northern Orchestra (Production individual) Hurst, George (Production individual) Redgrave, Michael (Sir) (Production cast) Richardson, Ralph (Sir) (Production cast) Williams, Emlyn (Production cast) Goring, Marius (Production cast) Luckman, Cyril (Production cast) Shaw, Sebastian (Production cast)
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  • Keywords: 31/3(41) (event) 31/3(43) (event)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1492 ft; Running time: 45 mins
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