ECLAIR NEWSREEL (1915 fragment) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ECLAIR NEWSREEL (1915 fragment) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1055c
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  • Summary: Newsreel item on a British machine gun team practising on a beach in Flanders, probably 1915.
  • Description: The team has set up its Vickers machine gun and is firing out to sea, at a post stuck in the sand. A Belgian officer watches with them, and nearby is a Belgian dog-team for pulling the machine gun.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 1055c
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1055c)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1915
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Éclair (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service) Belgian Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers machine gun (object name) training, British military - weapons: machine gun (object name) animals, mammals: dog (object name) transport, Belgian military - animal special: dog-cart (object name) 01/3(4-15).4 (?) (event) Belgium (geography)
  • 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: 46 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1055c

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