LORD ROBERTS LEAVING FOR SOUTH AFRICA [Main Title]

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  • Title: LORD ROBERTS LEAVING FOR SOUTH AFRICA [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1025c
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  • Summary: Very brief scene of Lord Roberts and his staff boarding SS Dunnottar Castle at Southampton docks for the trip to South Africa, 23rd December 1899.
  • Description:
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1025c)
  • Featured Period: Pre-1914
  • Production Date: 1900
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Warwick Trading Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (person) British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British auxiliary - transport: Dunnottar Castle (object name) boer war (event) 01/2(68).0 (event) GB, England & Southampton, Hants <Docks> (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: 18 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this has been taken from the Warwick catalogue for 1900 Production: this film is Warwick catalogue number 5521a Summary: the identification of this film was made by James Barker, late of the Department of Information Retrieval, Imperial War Museum, in work for the television series 'Flashback' Technical: this item is held on a single reel with films IWM 1025a-f, the can is marked as IWM 1025
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1025c

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