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Summary: Extremely dark and out-of-focus film of the Third Army Signal Office, Western Front, 1916-1918.
Description: Soldiers deliver letters at the "Post Hatch". They are taken by motorcycle to the Signal Office, where military clerks use telegraph, telephone and tickertape machines to relay the information.
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Army Signal Office 3 (regiment/service)
Keywords: communications, British military - postal: [-] (object name)
communications, British military - wire: [-] (object name)
01/3(4-15) (event)
France (geography)
Belgium (geography)
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 683 ft; Running time: 11 mins
Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet
Technical: the entire film is out of focus, badly under-exposed and generally almost unviewable
Remarks: some promising material, if it were possible to see what was going on