WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 360-1 (French version, fragment) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 360-1 (French version, fragment) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 674b
  • Other titles: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 360-1 (French version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: I. French language version of a newsreel item on a massed rally in Trafalgar Square, London, calling for the internment of all aliens of enemy nationalities, 13th July 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel item on the British Army fire service extinguishing a fire at a forage dump in France, July 1918. III. French language version of a newsreel item of Sir Edward Carson addressing a massed rally of Ulster Volunteers in Belfast, July 1918. IV. French language version of a newsreel item on the RAF in France, 1918. V. French language version of a newsreel item on Canadian journalists visiting Lord Beaverbrook at Cherkley Court, England, 14th July 1918.
  • Description: The camera, blocked by the crowd, shows only long shots and the view of the crowd from the speakers' platform, rather than the speakers themselves. The bales of hay are stacked over a considerable area, and the hoses are being played on those stacks which are smouldering or burning. Several stacks are completely ruined before the fire is under control. The loyalists parade through the streets of the city holding banners. At the rally Carson addresses them from a platform covered with Union Jacks. He holds up his cane - the silver-topped blackthorn of the Ulster Division (?) - in a symbolic gesture. The captions state that in 1917 the RAF shot down 4,102 enemy for the loss of 1,203 of their own men. The film shows a DH4 of 27 Squadron being made ready for a patrol at Serny, possibly 17th February 1918. The groundcrew wheel the plane out of its hangar, and fit 20-pound bombs. The gunner attaches his Lewis gun to the Scarfe ring. The plane takes off. The journalists walk through the grounds of Beaverbrook's home. The group, including Beaverbrook and his children, poses on the terrace.
  • Alternative Title: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 360-1 (French version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 674b
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-07-15
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Carson, Edward Henry (person) Aitken, William Maxwell, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (person) British Army, fire services (regiment/service) Ulster Defence Force (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Sqdn 27 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: politics, British - alternative (object name) destruction, French: fire (object name) supplies, British, storage [RA] - misc: [damaged] (object name) politics, Irish - alternative (object name) weapons, British air - bomb: 20-pound (object name) operations, British air - preparation (object name) operations, British air - sortie (object name) aircraft, British - combat: De Havilland DH4 (object name) weapons, British - smallarm (mounted): Lewis machine gun (object name) delegations, Canadian Imperial - informative (object name) journalism and record, British - press (object name) 31/3(41) (event) 01/3(4-15).9 (event) 31/3(415) (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) 31/3(41) (event) GB, England & London, WC <Trafalgar Square> (geography) France (geography) GB, Ireland & Belfast, Co Antrim (geography) Serny, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) GB, England & Mickleham, Surrey <Cherkley Court> (geography)
  • 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: 280 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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