WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 337-1 (fragment) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 337-1 (fragment) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 662a
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: I. Newsreel item on the march of half of 38th (Jewish) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, past the Lord Mayor of London "To Garrison Jerusalem?", 4th February 1918. II. Newsreel item on a Holt tractor under trial pulling a limber and men through the desert of Palestine, 1917. III. Newsreel item on a horsed transport column passing over a small pontoon bridge, Palestine, 1917. IV. Newsreel item on gunners watering and feeding their horses in a small village near Cambrai, Western Front, November 1917.
  • Description: The men of the battalion carry a Star of David flag, and despite the rain have drawn quite a crowd to cheer them. They come level with the Mansion House where the Lord Mayor waits to receive them as they pass.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-02-06
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Department of Information (Production sponsor) War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Marshall, Horace (person) London, Lord Mayor of (person) British Army, Royal Fusiliers, Bn 38 (regiment/service) British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) British Army, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) British Army, gunners (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ceremonies, British - display (object name) transport, British military - prime mover: Holt tractor (object name) supplies, British, movement [RA] - misc (object name) animals, mammals: horse (object name) 31/3(41) (event) 01/3(569) (event) 01/3(569) (event) 01/3(4-15).7 (event) GB, England & London, EC <Mansion House> (geography) Palestine (geography) Palestine (geography) Cambrai, Nord, France (geography) desert (concept)
  • 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: 205 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Production: see IWM 651a for production details Subtitles: these are all flashframes Summary: see IWM 146 for the Cambrai item. Note that a Spanish language version of this issue is IWM 651c Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 662b and IWM 662c, the can is marked as IWM 662
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 662a

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