Title:THE WORLD'S GREATEST STORY - EPISODE 8 [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 420-15+16
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Summary: A disjointed thematic treatment of British behind-the-lines services on the Western Front and of munitions manufacture during the First World War, 1916-1918.
Description: (Reel 15) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, gives a public speech from an Army staff car. A montage of women and men operating various metal presses, drop hammers, forge hammers and lathes, including manufacture of nose-caps for 18-pounders, hoists for 9.2-inch howitzers, and the manufacture of a 15-inch gun. A 12-inch railway gun being prepared for firing. A 6-inch Mk VII stuck in the mud with its tractor disabled. The Chinese Labour Corps at a light railway depot. The 12-inch railway gun still being prepared. A 15-inch shell marked "To Willie With Compliments" and a 15-inch howitzer being fired. A Chinese band and stilt walkers, "the men of the yellow race had their own diversions too". (Reel 16) Stretcher-bearers of the RAMC giving first aid. Nurses at a Casualty Clearing Station with heavily bandaged patients in bed. Women ambulance drivers of the VAD doing maintenance and driving work. The 'two women of Pervyse', Baroness T'Serclaes and Mairi Chisholm. More ambulances taking wounded onto special trains and a hospital ship. The Princess Louise Rest Home for nurses. Troopships returning home. The episode ends with a trailer for next week's episode.
