THE GREAT WAR 4 : Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre (1914 jingle) [Main Title]
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- Title: THE GREAT WAR 4 : Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre (1914 jingle) [Main Title]
- Film Number: IWM 1065-4
- Other titles: OUR HATS WE DOFF TO GENERAL JOFFRE (1914 jingle) [Alternative Title]
- Summary: The Western Front from the Battle of Mons to the end of the Allied Retreat, and the Eastern Front to the Battle of Tannenberg, August-September 1914.
- Description: In Belgium the leading elements of von Kluck's First Army encountered the four divisions of the British Expeditionary Force at Mons on 23rd August. Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien's II Corps held off the superior German numbers by rifle fire. Lanrazac's Fifth Army, still falling back on the British right, forced the BEF also to retreat, bringing refugees in its wake. Meanwhile on 17th August the Russians invaded East Prussia and on 20th August were successful at Gumbinnen. Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff were despatched to the Eastern Front and together replied with the great German victory over the Russians at Tannenberg. The key actor was now the French commander, General Joseph Joffre. On 24th August he realised that time must be created for a new French Sixth Army to be formed on the British left, opposing the German outflanking move. He was worried about lack of cooperation from the BEF, which was not under his direct command. Meanwhile at Le Cateau on 26th August Smith-Dorrien's tired troops fought another battle to check the German pursuit. French observers believed the BEF incapable of further resistance. A gap opened up between the German First Army, in pursuit of the British, and Second Army to the east. Joffre ordered Lanrazac to attack into the gap in the Battle of Guise, "the last of the old-time pageants of war". This checked von Kluck's forces, which in closing the gap began to turn east, not west, of Paris, from which the government had fled and which the military governor was pledged to defend " à outrance". Meanwhile in Britain the Times published the "Mons Despatch" emphasising British losses and calling for more reinforcements. As von Kluck's men advanced deeper into France they became increasingly exhausted. The British fought a final defensive action at Villers Cotterets as Sixth Army came into being on their left. It was clear to Joffre that as First Army turned east of Paris it would expose its flank to a counterstroke. The retreat slowed and ended, the British and French gathered themselves for the Battle of the Marne.
- Alternative Title: OUR HATS WE DOFF TO GENERAL JOFFRE (1914 jingle) [Alternative Title]
- Colour: B&W
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- Object_Number: IWM 1065-4
- 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) Terraine, John Alfred1921-01-152003-12-27 (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: 01/3(4-15).15 [1914 Mons] (event) 01/3(4-15).15 [1914 Le Cateau] (event) 01/3(4-15).17 [1914 Guise] (event) 01/3(4-11).12 (event) 01/3(4-11).14 (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: 1510 ft; Running time: 45 mins
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