WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 347-2 (Spanish version, fragment) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 347-2 (Spanish version, fragment) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 693e
  • Other titles: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 347-1 (Spanish version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on British troops near Amiens, Western Front, late March or early April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on J R Clynes MP opening a public food kitchen at Stoke Newington, April 1918. III. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on mineworkers being recruited for the Army in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, April 1918. IV. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on British and French troops in the Amiens area, Western Front, late March or early April 1918.
  • Description: An overturned 18-pounder field gun with the dead bodies of its horses and crew beside it. Soldiers, including a Lewis gunner in the foreground, holding a slit trench. Cavalry officers (dismounted) hold an open air briefing while German prisoners rest nearby. The film shows a crowd of cheering children. Clynes arrives and performs the opening ceremony. The children, rather camera-shy, hold jugs of soup. A final shot of one child in close-up eating an apple. The men pose with the recruiting sergeants. They are the last conscripts from the reserved occupations such as mining. They march through the town streets. Small children march in step as they go, and a woman rushes out to kiss her husband goodbye. British troops, some resting, hold a slit trench. Other soldiers rest, eating from cans. British and French soldiers, looking tired and strained, wait in a village. Two of the Frenchmen pick up their rifles and leave.
  • Alternative Title: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 347-1 (Spanish version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 693e
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-04-18
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Clynes, J R (person) British Army (regiment/service) Ministry of Food (regiment/service) British Army (regiment/service) British Army (regiment/service) French Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun & [wrecked] (object name) casualties, British dead - battlefield (object name) weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun (object name) prisoners of war, German - custody (object name) animals, mammals: horse & [casualties] (object name) society, British - charity (object name) propaganda, British - practical (object name) society, British - sustenance (object name) recruitment, British military: [+] (object name) society, British military - sustenance (object name) 01/3(4-15).92 [1918 Somme 2] (event) 31/3(41) (event) 31/3(41) (event) 01/3(4-15).92 [1918 Somme 2] (event) Somme, France (geography) GB, England & London, N <Stoke Newington> (geography) Burslem, Staffordshire, England, UK (geography) Somme, France (geography) children [+] (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: Spanish
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 238 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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