ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 43 [Main Title]

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  • Title: ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 43 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 508-43
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  • Summary: I. French newsreel item showing a coal mine in Alsace being worked by soldiers, January 1918. II. French newsreel item on Sergeant-Major Vitalis, at his squadron's aerodrome, Western Front, January 1918. III. French newsreel item on the visit of Ben Tillett, the British Labour MP, to the Western Front, January 1918. IV. French newsreel item on the Italian Front, January 1918. V. French newsreel item of scenes in silhouette and semi-darkness showing the King and Queen of Belgium reviewing troops of First Army in the Ypres area, Western Front, January 1918. VI. French newsreel item on their own troops on the Western Front, probably Verdun area, January 1918. VII. French newsreel item showing US Secretary of State for War Baker talking with US officers beside his car on a visit to the Western Front, January 1918. VIII. French newsreel item on their own commanders on the Western Front, January 1918.
  • Description: The soldiers bring the full coaltrucks out to the surface of the mine. The coal is dumped from the trucks and horse-wagons are loaded from the dump. A traction engine runs a coal-crusher. A few soldiers lead a heavy ox-wagon along the roads. Vitalis became the first aircraft machine-gunner to win the Legion of Honour, having scored seven kills. First a portrait shot. He poses in dress uniform beside his Breguet Type 14A2 with his Lewis machine gun mounted in the gunner's cockpit. He demonstrates his ability as a marksman by using a rifle at about 20 paces to shoot the ash off a friend's cigar. Tillett calls at Chauny Town Hall, which still shows extensive damage from the German retreat of February 1917. He then goes on with his party to the Soissons area where he inspects the damage to the railway sheds and station at Saint Gobain. General Pepino Garibaldi is posed together with the Commandant Sante Garibaldi, who went to fight in France at the head of the Garibaldian Legion in 1914. French soldiers lead back to the rear areas some of the Austrian prisoners they took on 30th December in the attack on Mount Tomba, with Italian women watching by the roadside, not far from Milan. The camera surveys the Austrians as they rest, picking out various types. A final portrait shot of General Fayolle, commanding the French contingent in Italy. The troops, with their tattered battle standards, march past briskly, seen only in silhouette as they pass in review. Transport mules are unhitched from light carts, some of them carrying machine guns. The carts are then loaded into lorries. Soldiers play cards and relax in a well-built dugout. A relief unit comes down the support trench. Portrait shots of General Ferdinand Foch at a formal function, General Henri Pétain decorating a soldier with the Croix de Guerre and "le soldat français", an irised shot of a Chasseur.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 508-43
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 508-43)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-01-05
  • Production Country: France
  • Production Details: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Vitalis (Sergeant-Major) (person) Tillett, Benjamin (person) Fayolle, Emile (person) Garibaldi, Giuseppe (Peppino) (person) Garibaldi, Sante (person) Albert I, King of Belgium (person) Elisabeth, Queen of Belgium (person) Baker, Newton Diehl (person) Foch, Ferdinand (person) Pétain, Philippe (person) French Army (regiment/service) French Army, Air Corps (regiment/service) French Army (regiment/service) French Army, Army 1 & Belgian Contingent (regiment/service) French Army (regiment/service) United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) French Army, [Chasseurs] (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: industry, French - primary (object name) aircraft, French - combat: Breguet Type 14A2 (object name) weapons, British - smallarm (mounted): Lewis machine gun & [French] (object name) delegations, British international - political (object name) destruction, French military - area (object name) buildings, French - commercial: railway station & [damaged] (object name) buildings, French - institutional: town hall & [damaged] (object name) prisoners of war, Austro-Hungarian - movement (object name) delegations, Belgian national - state (object name) animals, mammals: mule (object name) recreation, French military - casual (object name) defences, French - emplacement: dugout (object name) delegations, United States national - political (object name) propaganda, French - inspirational (object name) 31/3(44) (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 01/3(45).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) Alsace, France (geography) France (geography) Town Hall, Chauny, Aisne, France (geography) Saint Gobain Station, Soissons, Aisne, France (geography) Italy & Milan area, Lombardy (geography) Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium (geography) Verdun, Meuse, France (geography) France (geography) France (geography) half-light (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: 782 ft; Running time: 13 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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