GAS FILM CAPTIONS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: GAS FILM CAPTIONS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1103
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  • Summary: Captions and extracts from an unidentified film on gas warfare, probably 1918.
  • Description: The film opens with an unrelated cartoon view of no man's land. Then a stop-action sequence of a PH gas hood. Then troops practising putting on the 1917 pattern Small Box Respirator. The remainder of the film (nearly half) consists of captions for a film on gas training which appears not to exist.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1103)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: equipment, British - personal: gasmask (gas hood) (object name) equipment, British - personal: gasmask (small box respirator) (object name)
  • 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: 361 ft; Running time: 6 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Production: the captions are marked "A.C.T.B." Summary: see also IWM 276, which may contain some of the material relating to these captions Series continuity: there is no film held as IWM 1104
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1103

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