Title:FAMILY VISIT TO FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIALS ON WESTERN FRONT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 5102
Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY BILL THOMSON [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Bill Thomson, Scottish garage owner from West Calder, records trenches and war cemeteries on the Western Front during a family visit of remembrance in the summer of 1938.
Description: German Front Line 1917, No Man's Land, Canadian Front Line 1917, Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge (unveiled 26/7/1938), Indian Army War Memorial at Neuve Chapelle, Dud Corner British Cemetery for Battle of Loos (1915), Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) at unveiling ceremony at Arc de Triomphe (Paris), pavillions at the International Exhibition (Paris), caribou monument to Royal Newfoundland Regiment (at Beaumont Hamel, Battle of the Somme), German front line trench and Y Ravine (Battle of the Somme), battlefield debris, 51st Scottish Highland Division Memorial (Beaumont Hamel), Thiépval Anglo-French Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing (by Lutyens), French town memorial at Arras (?), Bastille Day parade on 14 July 1938 in Paris, rebuilt Golden virgin on top of basilica at Albert (Somme), British cemetery at Pozières, Menin Gate at Ypres, beach scenes and horse transport at Ostend, zoo, then holiday scenes in Brighton (Palace Pier and seafront) and Bournemouth (gardens), where middle-aged mother (Mrs Thomson?) poses in striped dress.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY BILL THOMSON [Alternative Title]
Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:MGH 5102
Sound:Silent
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Production Date:1938
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Thomson, Bill (Production individual)
