MESSTER WOCHE 45 1915 [Main Title]

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  • Title: MESSTER WOCHE 45 1915 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 483-3
  • Other titles: SEMANA MESSTER 45 1915 (on copy held) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: I. Portuguese language version of a German newsreel showing the Rumanian Minister of Finance, Take Ionescu, at a formal meeting, probably in Bucharest, 1915. II. Portuguese language version of a German newsreel of Turkish troops firing German 77mm field guns and Turkish wounded, possibly at Gallipoli, 1915. III. Portuguese language version of a German newsreel of their own forces on the Western Front, autumn 1915.
  • Description: A railhead behind the lines where timber is unloaded from the trains and sacks loaded onto horse-drawn wagons. A mine shaft is pumped clear of water by a hand-pump. In a training exercise troops crawl forward to simulate a "night attack" in daylight. The village of "Chelevelt", presumably Gheluvelt, destroyed "by the British", while new defensive positions are built in its ruins. A ration party moves up through the rear areas. A new 'model' set of trenches is inspected by staff officers. A Maxim machine gun on a recoiling platform in a trench is demonstrated, the platform enabling the gun to be swung down into the trench.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 483-3)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1915-11
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: Messter Film (Production company) Messter, O (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Ionescu, Take (person) Ottoman Army (regiment/service) German Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: weapons, German - gun: 77mm field gun & [Turkish] (object name) combat, Turkish - artillery bombardment (object name) casualties, Turkish wounded - battlefield (object name) supplies, German, movement [FA] - food (object name) engineering, military, German (object name) equipment, German - engineering: water pump (object name) training, German military - combat (object name) destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) defences, German - emplacement (object name) weapons, German - smallarm (mounted): Maxim machine gun & [+] (object name) 31/3(498) (event) 01/3(496.1) (event) 01/3(4-15).4 (event) Rumania & Bucharest (?) (geography) Turkey & Dardanelles (?) (geography) Gheluveldt, West Flanders, Belgium (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: Portuguese Subtitle language: Portuguese
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 590 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Production etc: see Notes to IWM 483-01 Remarks: if the Turkish material is indeed Gallipoli, it is the only known film of land forces on that side in the campaign in the Imperial War Museum collection.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 483-3

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