ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 35 [Main Title]

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  • Title: ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 35 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 508-35
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  • Summary: I. French newsreel item showing civilians, mainly women, filing past the graves at the Allied cemetery of Zeitenlick on All Saints' Day. Salonika Front, 1st November 1917. II. French newsreel item showing M Métin, Mayor of Evian, and his council members welcoming refugees from occupied areas who are to be resettled nearby. France, November 1917. III. French newsreel item showing that the port of Dunkirk with its Jean Bart Square is undamaged, and cargo ships are unloading there, despite German air raids. France, November 1917. IV. French newsreel item showing fraternisation between British and French soldiers at the junction of their lines in the Ypres area, November 1917. V. French newsreel item of the aftermath of the Chemin des Dames offensive from the River Aisne. France, November 1917.
  • Description: The men are French I Corps and British II Corps to the south. A mixed posed group of British and French soldiers talk with one another. British officers watch a French 75mm field gun crew opening fire from a gun pit. A British relief party passes another 75mm piece. British convoys travel on the roads, which are quite muddy. These include 3-ton lorries, marching soldiers, Holt tractors pulling 9.2-inch howitzers, limbers pulling 6-inch howitzers, motor ambulances, a London bus, and horse-drawn GS wagons. French horse-drawn transport passes the other way. Other roads show more marching columns of troops and London buses used to carry them. Watched by delegations from all the regiments which fought in the offensive, General Pétain decorates the standards of the regiments which distinguished themselves most. The ceremony is held in open fields in the pouring rain. General Maistre, commanding Sixth Army which made the attack, is decorated by Pétain as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. The regiments march past in salute, and display their standards.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 508-35)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917-11-10
  • Production Country: France
  • Production Details: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Metin (M) (person) Evian, Mayor of (person) Pétain, Philippe (person) Maistre, Paul (person) British Army, Army 2, Corps 2 (regiment/service) French Army, Army 1 & Corps 1 (regiment/service) French Army, Army 6 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ceremonies, French - event-related: All Saints' Day (object name) ceremonies, Greek - event-related: All Saints' Day (object name) casualties, French graves - formal (object name) casualties, Greek graves - formal (object name) casualties, Allied graves - formal (object name) refugees, French - settlement (object name) society, French - charity (object name) supplies, French, movement [RA] - misc (object name) society, French military - friendship (object name) society, British military - friendship (object name) combat, French - artillery bombardment (object name) weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun (object name) operations, British military - movement: road (object name) supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc (object name) operations, British military - movement: march (object name) transport, British military - prime mover: Holt tractor (object name) weapons, British - gun: 9.2-inch howitzer (object name) weapons, British - gun: 6-inch 26cwt howitzer (object name) transport, British military - bus (object name) transport, British military - animal (object name) transport, French military - animal (object name) ceremonies, French - event-related: investiture (object name) First World War, Salonika Front & 1/11/1917 (event) 31/3(44) (event) 31/3(44) (event) 01/3(4-15).74 (event) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) Greece & Salonika area, Macedonia <Zeitenlick cemetery> (geography) Evian-les-Bains, Haut-Savoie, France (geography) Jean Bart Square, Dunkirk, Nord, France (geography) Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium (geography) France (geography) mud (concept) rain (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: 537 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet Production etc: see Notes to IWM 508-10 Technical: issue IWM 508-35 is now joined with issue IWM 508-36 in a single reel 1109 feet long Remarks: the attack on the Aisne was little more than a successful line-straightening operation. It is significant that the official French newsreel should devote an entire issue - 33 - to the event and items of a further two issues to its aftermath, while virtually ignoring the French contribution to the later stages of the Flanders offensive, which was generally unsatisfactory
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