Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 375-1 (fragment) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 656a
Other titles:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 375-1 (fragment) [Alternative Title]
Summary: I. Newsreel item on British residents of Lille leaving a church after the liberation of the city. They pass a German wooden dummy of a Whippet tank, Western Front, October 1918.
II. Newsreel item on the visit of Prince Yorihito of Higashi-Fushimi to Britain, 28th October 1918.
III. Newsreel item on the dedication, by the Lord Mayor of London, of a war shrine "In Memory of the Fallen", London, October 1918.
IV. Newsreel item of the last known (and poor quality) film of Grand Duke Nicholas, the former Russian Commander-in-Chief, reviewing troops in Russia, autumn 1918.
V. Newsreel item of British soldiers clowning in the ruins of Cambrai after its liberation, October 1918.
Description: The Prince is met at Dover harbour by Prince Arthur of Connaught. The two men walk down the gangplank of Prince Yorihito's ship together and salute the flags of their nations. Next, a brief, indistinct scene of Prince Yorihito's drive through London in an open carriage with King George V.
Two of the soldiers, one in a top hat and the other a pickelhaube, stare at a German sign. The two are pushed by a third through a square cleared of rubble in a wrecked German car without an engine.
Alternative Title:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 375-1 (fragment) [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: George V, King (person)
Yorihito, Prince of Japan (person)
Arthur of Connaught (HRH Prince) (person)
Marshall, Horace (person)
London, Lord Mayor of (person)
Nicholas Nikolayevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (person)
Red Army (regiment/service)
British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: religion, Christianity - ceremonial, British (object name)
buildings, French - religious: church (object name)
equipment, German - decoy: dummy tank (object name)
armour, British - tank: Tank Medium A Whippet (dummy) (object name)
delegations, Japanese international - goodwill (object name)
buildings, British - monumental: war shrine (object name)
recreation, British military - casual: [+] (object name)
destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name)
01/3(4-15).9 (event)
31/3(41) (event)
31/3(41) (event)
31/3(47) (event)
01/3(4-15).9 (event)
Lille, Nord, France (geography)
Dover, Kent, England, UK (geography)
London, England, UK (geography)
London, England, UK (geography)
Russia (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: 277 ft; Running time: 5 mins
