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Summary: Newsreel item on a Belgian observation balloon section, Western Front, early 1917.
Description: The balloon section lorries arrive at an area of flat ground and the men start to inflate the balloon. The inflated balloon stands ready to ascend. Horses, towing a car out of a patch of soft ground, shy at the camera. The balloon is not seen ascending or in the air.