BRITISH HORSE SHOW IN ITALY [Main Title]

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  • Title: BRITISH HORSE SHOW IN ITALY [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 225
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  • Summary: British XIV Corps horse show in the Montello sector of the Italian Front, May 1918.
  • Description: The show is of RFA horses and limbers being judged, a jumping contest, a view of the audience, which contains a large number of Italian as well as British officers, and more of the jumping.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company) Raymond, H C (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery, RFA & Corps 14 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: recreation, British military - sport: horse show (object name) 01/3(45).8 (event) Italy & Montello area, Campania (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: 152 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet. Remarks: senior officers showed a tendency to 'hijack' the official cameramen to record their sports meetings, with results that were totally useless as propaganda, and this is a good example.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 225

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