PONTOON BRIDGE BUILDING [Main Title]

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  • Title: PONTOON BRIDGE BUILDING [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1091b
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  • Summary: A German Army exercise in bridging a river, possibly the Rhine, before the First World War.
  • Description: Scenes of a riverside town, including its castle. The river itself has steep banks, and is wide and fast-flowing. The German Engineers, in fatigue dress, row the pontoon boats with their wooden cross-beams out into the river, and link them together with ropes to form one continuous bridge. The bridging timbers are laid across the pontoons and the bridge (with a supporting side-rail) completed. Horse transport moves across the bridge. The Engineers then start to dismantle the bridge and row the pontoons back to the shore.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1091b)
  • Featured Period: Pre-1914
  • Production Date: 1912
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: UKF (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Imperial German Army, Engineers (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: engineering, military, German: bridge building & [+] (object name) buildings, German - historic: castle (object name) Germany & Rhine (River) (?) (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 392 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this appears at the bottom of each subtitle Production: despite this being apparently a German film the titling is in English. The production company logo, appearing on each caption, is the interlinked letters UKF Technical: this film is currently held on the same reel as film IWM 1091a, the can is marked as IWM 1091 Remarks: considerably more exciting than it sounds. The river is really fast-flowing towards its centre and the flat-bottomed pontoons handle like surfboats Series continuity: the numbers IWM 1092 - IWM 1094 inclusive have been allocated to modern compilation film that is not always included in catalogues of the archival IWM series
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1091b

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