Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 285-1 (fragment) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 1061-03h
Other titles:
Summary: I. Newsreel item on 'C' Battery, US 5th Field Artillery, in training at El Paso, Texas, January 1917.
II. Newsreel item on children tobogganing down a snow-covered slope in a park in north London, February 1917.
Description: The men are trying out caterpillar tractors, which pull 75mm M16 field guns, complete with limbers on which men are riding, over rough ground out in the desert.
Production Details: Department of Information (Production sponsor)
War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Army & Field Artillery Regt 5, C Bty (regiment/service)
Keywords: training, United States military - weapons: artillery (object name)
weapons, United States - gun: 75mm M16 field gun (object name)
transport, United States military - prime mover (object name)
recreation, British civilian - casual: tobogganing (object name)
31/3(41) (event)
El Paso, Texas, United States of America (geography)
North London, England, UK (geography)
desert (concept)
Children (concept)
snow (concept)
Winter (concept)
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: 148 ft; Running time: 2 mins
