Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 369-2 (fragment) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 685b
Other titles:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 369-2 (fragment) [Alternative Title]
Summary: I. Newsreel item on bread making by members of the WAAC, probably at the Army Maintenance Depot at Etaples, France, September 1918.
II. Newsreel item on an investiture by King George V at Buckingham Palace, September 1918.
III. Newsreel item on the treatment of British soldiers interned in Holland by the Dutch authorities, 1918.
Description: The women work out of doors. One woman cuts off pieces of dough for loaves, a second weighs the pieces and a third rolls them into spheres. After baking, the women carry the trays out and loosen the loaves. A posed group of the women, very camera conscious and unable to stop laughing.
The investiture takes place in the rear courtyard. Troops of the Army and Navy receive decorations, along with some Red Cross nurses who curtsy as they collect their medals.
A large group of the men, a mixture of the original BEF, crashed airmen, shipwrecked sailors and men in the process of repatriation, is posed outside the internment camp huts. They have some Dutch children with them. Some of the men work repairing boots. One sergeant holds a small Dutch girl beside him. Inside the men's dormitories they relax. On the seafront a group of the men talks with girls in Dutch national costumes. There is a row of bathing machines along the beach behind them. Some of the internees in a café at Scheveningen talk and drink with Dutch civilians.
Alternative Title:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 369-2 (fragment) [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: George V, King (person)
British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (regiment/service)
British Army (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
British Red Cross (regiment/service)
British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: society, British military - domestic (object name)
ceremonies, British - state: investiture (object name)
buildings, British - institutional: Buckingham Palace (object name)
prisoners of war, British - custody (object name)
society, Dutch - fashion (object name)
society, Dutch - friendship (object name)
society, British military - friendship (object name)
01/3(4-15).9 (event)
31/3(41) (event)
Army Maintenance Depot, Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
GB, England & London, SW <Buckingham Palace> (geography)
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands (geography)
Scheveningen, South Holland, Netherlands (geography)
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camera (concept)
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