ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 62 [Main Title]

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  • Title: ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 62 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 508-62
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  • Summary: I. French newsreel item on the visit of the Prince of Wales to the Anglo-French sector of the Italian Front, May 1918. II. French newsreel version of a British Handley Page 0/400 bomber being lined up, bombed up, and taking off, Western Front, 1918. III. French newsreel item on French and British troops at the junction of their lines just south of Amiens, Western Front, May 1918. IV. French newsreel item on captured German aircrew and infantry prisoners, Western Front, May 1918. V. French newsreel item on President Poincaré's visit to troops of the Sixth Army on the Somme, Western Front, May 1918. VI. French newsreel item on the training of messenger dogs, Western Front, May 1918.
  • Description: The Prince talks with French staff officers in a snowbound wood. Getting out of his car at another location he walks into a wood with his party. The group poses for the camera. The French troops have stretched gas capes over their foxholes, although one group lines a slit trench. The French and British operators share a single telephone line. At a crossroads in a nearby wood French and American transport wait to move up. Close to Villers Bretonneux on 8th May the German A7V tank 'Elfriede', victim of the first tank-to-tank engagement on 24th April, lies on its side with its track mechanism clearly visible. A German AEG GIV captured undamaged on a French airfield. The crew of four are posed, all grim faced, for the camera. Another group of German prisoners, soldiers captured at Grivesnes on 9th May, are resting. They are curious about the camera but otherwise relaxed. The President is accompanied by General Fayolle and General Humbert. His first appointment is to affix the Médaille Militaire onto the standard of 8th Tirailleur Regiment, in a formal ceremony with an inspection and band. 4th Zouave Regiment has its standard decorated with the ribbon of the Legion of Honour. Finally 1st Moroccan Regiment is given the Legion of Honour, and Poincaré decorates a number of its soldiers. The officers congratulate their men, then the whole force marches past. As a demonstration, an officer fits a message to a dog's collar and the dog's handler releases it. It runs past a (pyrotechnic) explosion and on to a second handler in a scrape trench. Another dog is sent in return. One of the handlers with his dog, which has a gasmask on as another demonstration. The handler removes the mask.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 508-62
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 508-62)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-05-18
  • Production Country: France
  • Production Details: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Edward, Prince (Duke of Windsor) (person) Poincaré, Raymond (person) Fayolle, Emile (person) Humbert, Georges Louis (person) French Army (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service) British Army, Army 4 (regiment/service) French Army, Army 1 (regiment/service) French Army (regiment/service) French Army, Tirailleur Regt 8 (regiment/service) French Army, Army 6 (regiment/service) French Army, Zouave Regt 4 (regiment/service) French Army, Moroccan Infantry Regt 1 (regiment/service) French Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: delegations, British international - goodwill (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Handley Page 0/400 (object name) weapons, British air - bomb: 112-pound (object name) operations, British air - sortie (object name) operations, French military - routine (object name) operations, British military - routine (object name) society, French military - friendship (object name) society, British military - friendship (object name) communications, French military - wire (object name) communications, British military - wire (object name) operations, French military - movement: road (object name) operations, United States military - movement: road (object name) armour, German - tank: A7V Sturmpanzerwagen & [captured] & [damaged] (object name) aircraft, German - combat: AEG GIV & [captured] (object name) prisoners of war, German - custody (object name) delegations, French national - state (object name) ceremonies, French - event-related: investiture (object name) animals, mammals: dog (object name) training, French military - specialist: dogs (object name) equipment, French - personal: gasmask (dog) (object name) communications, French military - message: dog (object name) 01/3(45).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (?) (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) Italy (geography) France (geography) Amiens, Somme, France (geography) Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France (geography) Somme, France (geography) France (geography) France (geography) snow (concept) camera (concept) camera (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: French
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 722 ft; Running time: 12 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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