THIRD ARMY SIGNAL OFFICE [Main Title]

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  • Title: THIRD ARMY SIGNAL OFFICE [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 433
  • Other titles:
  • 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.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 433)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details:
  • 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)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 683 ft; Running time: 11 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • 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
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 433

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