WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 365-2 (French version, fragment) [Main Title]
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- Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 365-2 (French version, fragment) [Main Title]
- Film Number: IWM 677b
- 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]
- Colour: B&W
- Digitised: Yes
- Object_Number: IWM 677b
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1914-1918
- Production Date: 1918-08-22
- Production Country: GB
- 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
- HD Media:Yes
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