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Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 335-2 (fragment 2) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 672b
Other titles:
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.
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
HD Media:Yes
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
