Other titles:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 365-2 (French version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
Summary: I. French language version of a newsreel item on King George V in France, 9th August 1918.
II. French language version of a newsreel item on members of the Ministry of Food at a food conference in London, August 1918.
III. French language version of a newsreel item on British treatment of German prisoners, Western Front, August 1918.
IV. French language version of a newsreel item on General Rosado, the new Portuguese commander, shown with his staff, then posed by himself, probably in England, August 1918.
Description: At Rouen the King poses for a group photograph with Field Marshal Haig, Marshal Foch and General Pétain. At Third Army headquarters, Frohen-le-Grand, later in the day he decorates three men with the Victoria Cross. They are the Reverend T B Hardy, attached to 8th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment, and Sergeant William Gregg and Corporal William Beesley, both of 13th Battalion, the Rifle Brigade. Gregg and Beesley pose together for a photograph.
Leaving Grosvenor House, the site of the Ministry of Food, are Major E A Belcher, the Director of the Fruit and Vegetables Department and S Walton, Assistant Food Controller. The delegates to the conference come down the outside stairs of the building into its gardens. Portrait shots of Belcher and Walton.
British soldiers rest beside a house equipped as a YMCA establishment. With them are German prisoners, some of whom are wounded. A soldier gives a German who is lying on a stretcher a cup of tea. The men are all camera-conscious, but the gesture seems nevertheless natural.
Alternative Title:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 365-2 (French version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Compagnie Generale de Cinematographie de Geneve (Distributor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: George V, King (person)
Haig, Douglas (person)
Foch, Ferdinand (person)
Pétain, Philippe (person)
Hardy, Theodore Bayley (person)
Gregg, William (person)
Beesley, William (person)
Belcher, E A (person)
Walton, S (person)
Rosado (General) (person)
British Army, Army 3 (regiment/service)
British Army, Lincolnshire Regiment, 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Rifle Brigade, 13th Battalion (regiment/service)
Ministry of Food (regiment/service)
British Army (regiment/service)
Young Men's Christian Association (regiment/service)
Portuguese Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: delegations, British national - state (object name)
delegations, British international - state (object name)
ceremonies, British - state: investiture (object name)
buildings, British - military: headquarters (Third Army) (object name)
religion, Christianity - military, British (object name)
buildings, British - institutional: Ministry of Food (object name)
prisoners of war, German - custody (object name)
casualties, German wounded - battlefield (object name)
society, British military - charity: [+] (object name)
society, British military - sustenance (object name)
01/3(4-15).9 (event)
31/3(41) (event)
01/3(4-15).9 (event)
31/3(41) (event)
Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France (geography)
Frohen-le-Grand, Somme, France (geography)
GB, England & London, SW (?) <Grosvenor House> (geography)
GB, England (?) (geography)
camera (concept)
propaganda, British (concept)
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: 191 ft; Running time: 3 mins
