WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 352-2 (French version, fragment 2) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 352-2 (French version, fragment 2) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 675a
  • Other titles: PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 352-2 (French version, fragment 2) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: I. French language version of a newsreel item on Eamon de Valera and Countess Markievicz, filmed during the East Clare by-election of May 1917, issued at the time of their arrest on 17th May 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel item on meat supplies to the British forces on the Western Front, May 1918.
  • Description: A band leads a crowd of people through the streets of the town. De Valera and Countess Markievicz address the crowd, two of whom are waving Sinn Fein tricolours. Soldiers unload whole carcasses of meat from lorries of V Corps (note the formation sign). The men cut up the meat with axes.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918-05-23
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: De Valera, Eamon (person) Markievicz, Constance (person) Irish Republican Army (regiment/service) Sinn Fein (regiment/service) British Army, Corps 5 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: politics, Irish - establishment (object name) politics, Irish - alternative (object name) supplies, British, storage [RA] - food (object name) 31/3(415) (event) 01/3(4-15).8 (event) GB, Ireland & Co Clare (geography) France (geography) Belgium (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: French
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 108 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes: Production: see IWM 651a for production details Summary: note that four more items from the French language version of this issue form IWM 668b Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 675b and IWM 675c, the can is marked as IWM 675
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    IWM 675a

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