Other titles:BATTLE OF THE ANCRE AND THE ADVANCE OF THE TANKS (Canadian version extracts ?) [Alternative Title]
Summary: Fragment of a Canadian film on tanks on the Western Front, 1916-1917.
Description: An unarmed Mark IV Male crushes barbed wire as soldiers mark its progress. An unarmed Mark IV Female comes up to the camera. Tank crews perform maintenance on "HMLS Daphne" (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). Mark IV tanks are repaired in the open at a tank base. Mark IV tanks move up a road near a battle zone. A wireless tank used as an observation post during the First Battle of Cambrai. "HMLS Oh I Say" (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). A training attack by a Mark IV Male with supporting troops advancing through smoke (note houses in background) and firing a blank shot from one of its 6-pounder guns. More of Mark I tanks (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). A Canadian officer poses with his tank, which has a Maple Leaf drawn on its nose.
Alternative Title:BATTLE OF THE ANCRE AND THE ADVANCE OF THE TANKS (Canadian version extracts ?) [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Canadian War Records Office (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
British Army, Machine Gun Corps, Heavy Section, Tank Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: combat [simulated], British - tank (object name)
armour, British - tank: Tank Mark I (object name)
armour, British - tank: Tank Mark IV (object name)
operations, British military - maintenance (object name)
01/3(4-15).57 [1916 Flers-Courcelette] (event)
01/3(4-15).76 (event)
Somme, France (geography)
Cambrai, Nord, France (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: 701 ft; Running time: 12 mins
IWM 116 (THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE AND ADVANCE OF THE TANKS [Main Title])
IWM 144 (CAMBRAI OFFENSIVE [Main Title])
IWM 466 (THE CANADIAN VICTORY AT COURCELETTE : and the advance of the tanks [Main Title])