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Title:WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 356-2 (fragment 1) [Main Title]
Film Number:IWM 1061-05f
Other titles:PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 356-2 (fragment 1) [Alternative Title]
Summary: Newsreel item on damage done by Austrian shelling to Italian works of art at Nervesa on the River Piave, Italy, summer 1918.
Description: The villa of Berti Soderini at Nervesca, containing frescoes by Paolo Veronese, shows extensive damage as the result of an Austrian bombardment, "the Hun touch".
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Topical Film Company (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: destruction, Italian military - area: artillery bombardment (object name)
propaganda, British - inflammatory (object name)
arts, Italian - fine arts (object name)
buildings, Italian - historic: villa & [damaged] (object name)
01/3(45).8 (event)
Italy & Nervesa, Veneto (geography)
Italy & Piave (River) (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: 78 ft; Running time: 1 min
HD Media:Yes
Notes: Production: see IWM 651a and IWM 1061-01 for production details
Summary: note that a fragment of the French version of this newsreel is IWM 660b, and that a further English fragment is IWM 1061-05i later in the reel. None of this material is duplicate
Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 1061-05a-i, the can is marked as IWM 1061-05