PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 13 [Main Title]

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  • Title: PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 13 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 501-13
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  • Summary: I. US film mainly of their own forces on the Western Front, October or November 1918. II. US film of their own forces on the Italian Front, October or November 1918. III. US film of captured German war trophies displayed in Paris and the state visit of George V, December 1918.
  • Description: A column of men from 1st Balloon Company, in the Meuse or Moselle region, march through a village. British "8-inch Naval rifles" (in fact 6-inch Mk VII guns) being fired by gunners of 27th (New York) Division. One chalks on a shell "from first squad, New York". US Colored Troops of the Signal Corps, 92nd (Buffalo) Division, repairing wires after the capture of the Breslen trenches. US troops help issue supplies to refugees, loading the goods onto rail flatcars. French refugees return to Bohain, mainly old people and children who carry an American flag down the street. In recently-liberated Montbrehain 79-year-old Madame Josephine Wassaux talks to Lieutenant C A Daniels of 105th Field Signal Battalion, 27th Division. German prisoners work carrying boxes, and sit delousing themselves, at Saint Pierre des Corps station in the Loire area. At Puteaux five US volunteers test the effects of "sneeze gas" on American and German gasmasks. All emerge from a room full of the gas. The three without masks are badly affected, as is the one wearing a German mask. The man wearing the American mask does not seem to be affected. The contingent is 332nd Infantry Regiment. The men march through the streets of Treviso and under the main arch. At the River Sile Italian soldiers give them instructions in river crossing using punts. The Americans march to and occupy the "Royal Dyke" defences on the River Piave. Bonfires are prepared as protection against gas. A gas exercise near Varago-Maserada, with the men donning their masks. More of the trenches on the River Piave. General Charles G Treat and Mr Samuel Gompers (the American labour leader) with Colonel William Wallace, commanding 332nd Regiment, at his headquarters at Treviso. Mr Gompers talks to an Italian soldier, and in a formal ceremony the "New York Sons of Young Italy" presents its colours to the regiment, and they are carried back to its headquarters. The centre of the city. Captured German and Austrian 77mm field guns are parked along the Champs Elysées, and there is an exhibition of war trophies in the Place de la Concorde (the camera is on a car travelling at high speed). Enemy planes and guns are on display in the Tuileries gardens. In the Champs Elysées is a plaster-of-paris study of a planned statue of "Poilu", a French soldier beside a female personification of France. A visit of King George V to France, probably December 1918. He emerges from the Bois de Boulogne station and enters a horse-drawn carriage with President Poincaré. The Prince of Wales is behind them. Their carriage and a number of others pass the camera too quickly for the occupants to be identified. With an escort of French soldiers the carriages cross the Seine into the Place de la Concorde.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 501-13
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 501-13)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1919
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: United States Army General Staff, Historical Branch, War Plans Division (Production sponsor) US Signal Corps (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Wassaux, Josephine (person) Daniels, C A (person) Treat, Charles G (person) Gompers, Samuel (person) Wallace, W (person) George V, King (person) Poincaré, Raymond (person) Edward, Prince (Duke of Windsor) (person) United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) United States Army & Balloon Coy 1 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 27 & Field Artillery Bde 52 (regiment/service) United States Army & Signal Corps (regiment/service) United States Army & [black troops] (regiment/service) United States Army, 92nd Infantry Division (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 27 & Field Signal Bn 105 (regiment/service) United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 83 & Infantry Regt 332 & [Italian contingent] (regiment/service) Royal Italian Army (regiment/service) New York Sons of Young Italy (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, United States military - movement: march (object name) combat, United States - artillery bombardment (object name) weapons, British - gun: 6-inch Mark VII & [United States] (object name) refugees, French - return (object name) society, United States military - charity (object name) society, United States military - friendship (object name) society, French - friendship (object name) prisoners of war, German - custody (object name) society, German military - hygiene (object name) training, United States military - specialist: anti-gas (object name) operations, United States military - movement: march (object name) training, United States military - specialist: river crossing (object name) society, Italian military - friendship (object name) society, United States military - friendship (object name) training, United States military - specialist: anti-gas (object name) delegations, United States national - political (object name) ceremonies, United States - event-related: presentation (colours) (object name) delegations, British international - state (object name) spoils, French (object name) weapons, German - gun: 77mm field gun & [captured] (object name) arts, French - fine arts (object name) buildings, French - commercial: railway station (object name) 01/3(4-15).9 (event) 01/3(45).9 (event) First World War, Armistice & 12/1918 (event) Alsace, France (geography) Breslen, Marne, France (geography) Bohain-en-Vermandois, Aisne, France (geography) Montbrehain, Aisne, France (geography) Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Indre-et-Loire, France (geography) Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France (geography) Italy & Treviso, Veneto (geography) Italy & Sile (River) (geography) Italy & Piave (River) (geography) Seine (River), France (geography) Champs Elysées, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Place de Concord, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Bois de Boulogne, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Race (concept) Age (concept) Children (concept) camera (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 982 ft; Running time: 16 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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