ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 18 [Main Title]

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  • Title: ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 18 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 508-18
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  • Summary: French newsreel of the Western Front, including a ministerial tour of the rear area towns and Pétain decorating formation standards, July 1917.
  • Description: I. A recently recaptured area. A school class is held in the open air. An officer of 102nd Infantry Regiment gives small gifts to the children. The gifts include small French flags. The children's faces are shown in close-up. They race out of the schoolyard. II. Nesle, behind the lines, Somme area. A British officer hands out chocolate to children in the main square, one of the children is held by a French officer, and the two men talk together. In the square a pierrot show is about to start, the actors are preparing and the audience, of civilians and British and French soldiers, is waiting. The show, on a raised stage at one end of the square, starts with a lady singer, followed by a paper-tearing act. III. More recently recaptured areas. M Viviani, the "Garde de Sceaux" (Privy Seal) and M Leon Bourgeois, the Minister of Labour, on a tour of enquiry deliver speeches to a gathering in the square of one town. At Noyon they meet the Mayor, M Noel, and again give speeches to the people. They pay homage to the war dead at a temporary cemetery. At Guiscard they are met by the town leaders, and at Ham they again address the locals from the main square. IV. General Pétain at a formal parade pins the Croix de Guerre to the standard of 410th Infantry Regiment. As the ceremony finishes a small girl, accompanied by her mother, offers Pétain a bouquet of flowers. He kisses both of them. Later in the ceremony he also decorates the standard of I Cavalry Corps (note that this included Infantry and cyclist units). After this ceremony General Féraud decorates the fanions of cyclist units of 1st Cavalry Division. The troops of the division, including an Infantry regiment, march past. A close-up of the fanion-bearer. The division then marches back to camp and Pétain congratulates the various officers.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 508-18
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 508-18)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917-07-14
  • Production Country: France
  • Production Details: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Pétain, Philippe (person) Viviani, René (person) Bourgeois, Léon Victor Auguste (person) Noel (Monsieur) (person) Noyon, Mayor of (person) Feraud (General) (person) French Army, Infantry Regt 102 (regiment/service) French Army, Infantry Regt 410 (regiment/service) French Army, Corps, Cavalry, 1 (regiment/service) French Army, Div, Cavalry, 1 (regiment/service) British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: society, British military - friendship (object name) society, French - friendship (object name) recreation, French civilian - theatre (object name) delegations, French national - political (object name) casualties, French graves - mass (object name) ceremonies, French - event-related: investiture (object name) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) 31/3(44) (event) Nesle, Somme, France (geography) Noyon, Oise, France (geography) Guiscard, Oise, France (geography) Ham, Somme, France (geography) Children (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: 530 ft; Running time: 9 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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