Summary: French newsreel of events on the Western Front, May 1918.
Description: A brief scene of Marshal Joffre receiving a civilian delegation outside his headquarters. Shells of various calibres stacked in a munitions dump, and Engineers pulling a box girder bridge into position across a river, with the piers of the old bridge standing beside the new, in the Somme region. Limbered US 155mm howitzers move up a road. US soldiers on a route march, including a machine gun company with its light carts. Most of the men wave at the camera. Soldiers move through a trench and look out from the summit of Mont Plémont. The commander of a colonial division with a Moroccan regiment attached to it (name censored) is decorated by General Humbert with the Croix de Guerre. Humbert inspects the division, which marches past. 320mm railway guns "which silenced the guns bombarding Paris" are loaded and fired.
Production Details: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Humbert, Georges Louis (person)
Joffre, Joseph Jacques Cesaire (person)
French Army, Engineers (regiment/service)
French Army, [colonial troops] (regiment/service)
French Army, [gunners] (regiment/service)
United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
United States Army & [machine gunners] (regiment/service)
Keywords: delegations, French national - goodwill (object name)
supplies, French, storage [FA] - munitions (object name)
engineering, military, French (object name)
weapons, French - gun: 155mm howitzer & [United States] (object name)
operations, United States military - movement: march (object name)
ceremonies, French - event-related: investiture (object name)
weapons, French - gun: 320mm (railway mounted) (object name)
combat, French - artillery bombardment (object name)
01/3(4-15).8 (event)
France (geography)
Mont Plémont, France (geography)
camera (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: 583 ft; Running time: 10 mins
