Title:FRENCH ARMY V. R.A.F. FOOTBALL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BCY 5
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Summary: Unedited and uncensored newsreel rushes showing a football match between the French Army and the Royal Air Force at Amiens in northern France and British troops taking over a French fort.
Description: I. Scenes from a friendly international football match played in a sports stadium at Amiens by teams from the French Army and the Royal Air Force showing both sides lined up to be introduced to a French general (?) and an RAF officer, the team captains tossing a coin for the kick-off and the game during play in which two goals are won by the British team. French soldiers and RAF personnel watch the game from sparsely-populated terraces and a crowded sports pavilion. During half-time, French soldiers and RAF personnel put on a show of inter-Allied harmony for the camera; two tall Britishers pose with a short French soldier. Scenes from the second half of the game.
II. British troops are seen manning the Fort de Sainghain along the Franco-Belgian border, They use water from a portable reservoir they have brought into the fort to mix concrete for the construction of new bunkers in ground they are seen clearing. A British Army 6x4 lorry emerges from a tunnel entrance and motors into the fort's inner courtyard. British troops in ranks of three march smartly over the drawbridge over the moat surrounding the fort and pass a French Army sentry who presents arms. The British soldiers are wearing a mix of old uniforms and the new British Army Battledress. They march through the grounds of the fort and along one of its underground galleries. British soldiers are seen at work under camouflage netting clearing an area of ground for the construction of a new bunker.
Production Details: Universal News (Production company)
Noble, R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
French Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Amiens, Somme, France (geography)
Sainghin-en-Mélantois, Nord, France (geography)
Fort de Sainghin (geography)
Phoney War 1939-1940, Second World War (event)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
France and the Low Countries 1939-1940 (theme)
Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (theme)
Camouflage (theme)
