Title:GENERAL BARRE AND OFFICERS ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 467/2
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Shots of General Barré taken for Pinewood. French generals at an anniversary lunch given by Colonel Carpentier of the Tirailleurs Maroccains.
Description: General Barré joins his staff officers, who salute him. He gives them instructions and points out positions on a map. The General with one of his officers. A different angle of this shot with the countryside in the background. Panning shot of the General returning with his staff to his car and driving off.
General Barré arriving for lunch. General Juin arrives. General Juin takes the salute. Close up of General Juin chatting to the official guests. Close up of General Juin. General Juin walks to the portico where the lunch is held and receives a date and some milk (a Moroccan custom). General Barré takes a date to be dipped in milk. The food is carried in on trays. The guests seated around tables. The band plays under the trees. Another band takes over and plays outside. Panning shot of General Juin leaving. Close up of the General talking to other officers. Close up of the General saluting from the back of his car before leaving. Close up of Senegalese troops.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Meyer (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Barré, Georges (person)
Juin, Alphonse P (person)
French Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tunis, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
