Summary: I. French newsreel item of events on the Italian Front, mid-July 1918.
II. French newsreel item on German guns captured on the Oise sector of the Western Front on display behind the lines, July 1918.
III. French newsreel item demonstrating a Renault FT18 light tank in wooded undergrowth, Western Front, July 1918.
IV. French newsreel item on General Gouraud reviewing Cavalry regiments employed in the Marne area, Western Front, July 1918.
Description: Austrian prisoners captured by the French are marched back to their prisoner of war camp. After waiting outside their huts they queue for food. French forces on the Italian Front are visited by the King of Italy, who arrives by car. He reviews the troops alongside General Diaz, the Italian GOC, and General Graziani commanding the French contingent. The marchpast includes a Chasseur battalion marching at fast pace.
The guns are of various calibres. They include a 150mm howitzer with its barrel split and some 220mm mortars, along with many trench mortars.
The tank climbs a steep bank, rotates its turret, reverses into the woods and descends a steep bank, all successfully.
The general pins the Croix de Guerre to the standards of 6th Dragoons and 23rd Dragoons. A whole Cavalry division marches past, led by its cyclists and horsemen throwing up dust, then the 75mm field guns and wagons, and finally the White armoured cars.
Production Details: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (person)
Diaz, Armando (person)
Graziani, Rodolfo (person)
Gouraud, Henri Joseph Eugène (person)
French Army (regiment/service)
French Army, [Chasseurs] (regiment/service)
French Army (regiment/service)
French Army, Dragoons 6 (regiment/service)
French Army, Dragoons 23 (regiment/service)
Keywords: prisoners of war, Austro-Hungarian - movement (object name)
prisoners of war, Austro-Hungarian - custody (object name)
delegations, Italian international - state (object name)
spoils, French (object name)
armour, French - tank: Renault FT18 (object name)
training, French military - specialist: tanks (object name)
ceremonies, French - event-related: investiture (object name)
weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun (object name)
armour, United States - armoured car: White & [French] (object name)
01/3(45).8 (event)
01/3(4-15).8 (event)
01/3(4-15).8 (event)
01/3(4-15).8 (event)
Italy (geography)
Oise (River), France (geography)
France (geography)
France (geography)
dust (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: 513 ft; Running time: 9 mins