WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 340-1 (Spanish version, fragment) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 340-1 (Spanish version, fragment) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 681a
  • Other titles: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 340-1 (Spanish version, fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on "the biggest photograph in the world", Grafton Galleries, London, late February 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the visit of the Prince of Wales to Ebbw Vale, 21st February 1918. III. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on a tour by munitions workers over Vimy Ridge, February 1918.
  • Description: Work is in progress for the opening of an exhibition of British official war photographs at the galleries. The photographs are blow-ups to life size, including one which is meant to be the largest in the world, showing troops and tanks on the Western Front. Retouch work is done on the photograph with paint brushes and sprays. The Prince arrives by car, escorted by the Honourable Sir Sidney Greville and Lord Treowan. He greets the local dignitaries and inspects a guard of honour from the Monmouthshire Volunteers. He meets a group of VAD nurses at a local hospital (note the cine-cameramen at work in the background). Wearing a collier's overalls and cap, and carrying a safety lamp, he prepares to descend into a shaft at the Victoria Colliery. At Cardiff docks he is shown various light naval weapons. The workers, as they approach the battlefield, put on their shrapnel helmets. The conducting officer leads them over the various craters and ridges.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-02-27
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Edward, Prince (Duke of Windsor) (person) Greville, Sidney (person) Herbert, Ivor John Caradoc (1st Baron Treowan) (person) Voluntary Aid Detachment (regiment/service) British Army, Monmouthshire Volunteers (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Cardiff Naval Docks (regiment/service) Victoria Colliery (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: arts, British - fine arts: photography (object name) propaganda, British - inspirational (object name) journalism and record, British - photographer (object name) industry, British - primary (object name) delegations, British national - goodwill (object name) journalism and record, British - cameraman (object name) delegations, British national - goodwill (object name) 31/3(41) (event) 31/3(41) (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) GB, England & London, WC (?) <Grafton Galleries> (geography) GB, Wales & Ebbw Vale, Mon (geography) GB, Wales & Cardiff, Glam (geography) Vimy Ridge, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) Class (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: Spanish
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 280 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Production: see IWM 651a for production details Summary: see IWM 170 for the Prince of Wales item Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 681b, IWM 681c and IWM 681d, the can is marked as IWM 681
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    IWM 681a

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