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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.
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)
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 238 ft; Running time: 4 mins
HD Media:Yes
Notes: Production: see IWM 651a for production details
Summary: see IWM 180 for the first Western Front item
Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 693a, IWM 693b, IWM 693c and IWM 693d, the can is marked as IWM 693
Remarks: a considerably above average episode with a high standard of camerawork relative to the rest of the series. It is tempting to associate the miners in Burslem with 46th (North Midlands) Division and its achievement in breaking the Hindenburg Line at Bellenglise in September 1918
