GAUMONT GRAPHIC 426 (fragment 1) [Main Title]

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  • Title: GAUMONT GRAPHIC 426 (fragment 1) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1061-04e
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  • Summary: Newsreel item on German incendiary bombs dropped near Faversham, Kent, March 1915.
  • Description: British soldiers dig the bombs out of the ground. A major turns one over in his hands (they are quite small).
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1061-04e)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1915-03
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Gaumont (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: weapons, German air - bomb: [unexploded] (object name) 31/3(41) (event) 17/3(141) (event) Faversham, Kent, England, UK (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: 59 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • Notes: Production: see IWM 1061-01 for production details. Additional material from this issue is held as IWM 1061-06b and h Summary: no record of a specific attack on Faversham in March can be found, but this film may show part of the result of a raid which failed to find London on 4th March Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 1061-4a-h, the can is marked as IWM 1061-04
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1061-04e

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