Title:WESTERN FRONT CHRISTMAS - 1915 (?) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:IWM 106
Other titles:
Summary: Christmas scenes on the Western Front, probably 1915.
Description: The Prince of Wales leaves a house to enter a car. A steam pump in operation by a canal lock, probably the Yser Canal. Troops, possibly new arrivals, entering billets. A field kitchen. Soldiers digging. A "Christmas ride to Berlin" (flashframe) showing British soldiers riding horses while wearing gasmasks. A horse obstacle-race. A "ride of the Amazons" (flashframe) of soldiers wearing skirts riding through shallow water. A ship coming into harbour. An RHA troop waiting to move off. British soldiers using a hand pump to clear a waterlogged trench.
Production Details: War Office (Production sponsor)
British Topical Committee for War Films (Production company)
Malins, Geoffrey H (Production individual)
Tong, Edward G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Edward, Prince (Duke of Windsor) (person)
British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Horse Artillery (regiment/service)
Keywords: equipment, British - engineering: water pump (steam) (object name)
equipment, British - environmental: field kitchen (object name)
equipment, British - engineering: water pump (hand) (object name)
ships, British civilian - passenger (object name)
recreation, British military - sport (object name)
01/3(4-15).4 (event)
Yser (Canal), Belgium (geography)
Winter (concept)
mud (concept)
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: 356 ft; Running time: 6 mins
