TOPICAL BUDGET (items) [Main Title]

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  • Title: TOPICAL BUDGET (items) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: NTB 241-2
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: I. Versailles in use as a hospital. II. Married men go to war. III. Rowing race
  • Description: I. 'PALACE OF VERSAILLES AS HOSPITAL: Scenes in the French Red Cross hospital where the "Poilus" are cared for by charming nurses'. Nurses and a doctor attend to a patient. One of the long rooms of the Palace of Versailles has been converted into a ward, in which doctors and nurses are carrying out a tour of inspection. Some of the patients, sitting in bed or walking around. II. 'MARRIED MENS' (sic) CALL: How the first groups of married men to be called to the colours, will be trained, before they are passed as for the front'. Scenes of shirt-sleeved recruits being put through their paces: drill, exercises, weapons training (bayonet and machine gun) and practice in trenches. III. 'KEEPING FIT AT SEA: Middies occupy their spare time with racing for the championship of the Fleet'. Sailors hold a rowing race. (Abrupt end.)
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: NTB 241-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (NTB 241-2)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1916-04-08
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: French Red Cross (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: medical, French military - hospital (object name) recruitment, British: conscripts, WW1 (object name) training, British military (object name) recreation, British naval - sport: rowing (object name) Versailles, Yvelines, France (geography) GB (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 89 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    NTB 241-2

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