WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 369-1 (fragment) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 369-1 (fragment) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 685a
  • Other titles: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 369-1 (fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: I. Newsreel item on the visit of Samuel Gompers, the US labour leader, to the Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth, September 1918. II. Newsreel item on King George V and Queen Mary at a sports meeting of Canadian forestry troops in Britain, September 1918. III. Newsreel item on General John J Pershing reviewing French troops behind the lines on the Western Front, August or September 1918. IV. Newsreel item on the memorial service for Mrs V A Long, head of the WAAC, at Saint Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London, 15th September 1918. V. Newsreel item on English schoolboys pulling flax in their holidays as part of the harvest, September 1918.
  • Description: Mr Gompers with two other labour leaders comes up the ladder and onto the quarterdeck of HMS Queen Elizabeth. Admiral Sir David Beatty is there with his staff to shake hands and meet him. The King and Queen leave their cars and enter the fields where the sports are being held. A Canadian pipe band marches past. The sports begin with a sprint race, followed by a shot-put. The King talks with the Canadian officers. A pole vault is shown. The Queen talks with her own companions. The honour guard of French soldiers is drawn up outside a railway station. Pershing (no good shot of him) walks past reviewing them. Mrs Long was drowned when the hospital ship SS Warilda was torpedoed by a U-boat on 3rd August. Contingents representing various women's organisations, including the WAAC, the Land Army and the Girl Guides, file up the steps and into the church for the service. After the service Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Lloyd and Lieutenant-General Sir Nevil Macready leave the church. A lorry takes the boys from outside their public school, and out to the fields. There they gather flax under the supervision of an adult. The man takes a bundle of flax and separates it into fibres for the camera's benefit.
  • Alternative Title: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 369-1 (fragment) [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 685a
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-09-16
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Gompers, Samuel (person) Beatty, David Richard (person) George V, King (person) Mary, Queen (person) Pershing, John Joseph (person) Long, Victor Arthur (person) Lloyd, Francis (person) Macready, Nevil (person) Royal Navy, Queen Elizabeth (regiment/service) British Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) French Army (regiment/service) British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (regiment/service) Women's Land Army (regiment/service) Girl Guides (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: delegations, United States international - goodwill (object name) ships, British naval - battleship: Queen Elizabeth (object name) delegations, British Imperial - state (object name) recreation, Canadian military - sport: athletics & [+] (object name) equipment, Canadian - personal: bagpipes (object name) delegations, United States international - military (object name) buildings, French - commercial: railway station (object name) buildings, British - religious: church (object name) ceremonies, British - event-related: memorial service (V A Long) (object name) agriculture, British - arable (object name) 12/3(261.2).8 (event) 31/3(41) (event) 01/3(4-15).9 (event) 31/3(41) (event) 31/3(41) (event) GB, Scotland & Firth of Forth (geography) GB, England (geography) GB, England & London, WC <Saint Martin-in-the-Fields Church> (geography) GB, England & London, WC <Trafalgar Square> (geography) France (geography) (concept) Children (concept) Class (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: 249 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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