WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 335-2 (fragment 2) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 335-2 (fragment 2) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 672b
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  • Summary: Fragments from a Topical Budget newsreel.
  • Description: I. Newsreel item on Sir Edward Kemp, Canada's Minister of Militia, working at his desk and in profile against a window, January 1918. II. Newsreel item on US Ambassador Walter Page opening a YMCA for US officers in London, January 1918. III. Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-01-24
  • 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: Kemp, Edward (person) Page, Walter Hines (person) Young Men's Christian Association (regiment/service) British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ceremonies, United States - event-related (object name) recreation, British military - casual: snowball fight (object name) West Flanders, Belgium (geography) snow (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: 151 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • Notes: Subtitles: these are all flashframes Production: see IWM 651a for production details Summary: note that a more complete version of this issue is held with Spanish titles as IWM 697a and an additional story as IWM 1061-09a Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 672a, the can is marked as IWM 672
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 672b

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