THE ESSEX REGIMENT [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE ESSEX REGIMENT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 394
  • Other titles: THE BRITISH REGIMENTS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: A regular battalion of the Essex Regiment in the rear areas of the Western Front, autumn 1917.
  • Description: I. A posed group of men of the battalion lying on the grass. Signallers practise semaphore on the parade ground. Stretcher-bearer teams, also on the parade ground, go through the drill of helping casualties. Four battalion boot-repairers at work. The mid-day meal is issued to the men who queue up with their mess tins. Men of the battalion are billeted in a farm and walk up an outside stairway to a hayloft. The mail arrives and the men cluster round to receive parcels. A company marches down a country road in shirtsleeve order. II. Two unrelated scenes have become attached to the end of the film. Recruiting bands march through city streets joined by civilians. Two observers, in a faked close-up, in a balloon basket.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-03
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Essex Regiment (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, British military - routine (object name) training, British military - specialist: signals (object name) communications, British military - direct: semaphore (object name) training, British military - specialist: medical (object name) society, British military - sustenance (object name) communications, British military - postal (object name) recruitment, British military: recruiting march (object name) aircraft, British - balloon: observation kite balloon (object name) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) 31/3(41) (event) France (geography) GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 335 ft; Running time: 6 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet Summary: see also IWM 388 and the rest of the series Remarks: valueless as a record of a specific battalion, consisting of a series of stockshots
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 394

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