DEFENCE OF VERDUN [Main Title]

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  • Title: DEFENCE OF VERDUN [Main Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 3566
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  • Summary: Film records the French Army's defence of the fort at Verdun against German attack, showing delivery of supplies and shells to trenches by pack horse and narrow gauge railway, artillery and armoured train firing, battlefield scattered with German dead (one soldier covered in flies), German prisoners bringing in French wounded, General Pétain decorating French soldiers and French cemeteries.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: MGH 3566
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: NON-IWM: PROJECTION PRINT ONLY - NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE
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  • Production Date: 1916
  • Production Country: GB
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1080 ft; Running time: 16 mins
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