AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS ON THE ITALIAN FRONT 1 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: AUSTRO-HUNGARIANS ON THE ITALIAN FRONT 1 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1034-4
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  • Summary: Disjointed Hungarian film of Austro-Hungarian troops in action or training, mostly on the Italian Front, probably 1917.
  • Description: A training exercise on gently rolling slopes begins with 77mm field guns and trench mortars opening the bombardment, joined by light howitzers. An intercut scene of Austro-Hungarian troops walking down a damaged street. Back with the exercise, the bombardment of the slopes continues, and the Infantry start to move forward in waves, getting up to the first enemy wire. An intercut shot of an assault battalion on the march through some woods, then back to the staff officers directing the exercise, cutting between the two. Assault troops collect their equipment and move up through a communications trench. Austro-Hungarian Infantry advance through a wood and form a firing line, moving up by sections. Italian prisoners are led back through a town in the wet; the town shows battle damage and has temporary defences.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1034-4)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: Austria-Hungary
  • Production Details: Sascha Film (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Austro-Hungarian Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: training, Austro-Hungarian military - combat: [+] (object name) weapons, Austro-Hungarian - gun: 77mm field gun (object name) weapons, Austro-Hungarian - mortar: trench mortar (object name) destruction, Italian military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) prisoners of war, Italian - movement (object name) 01/3(45).7 (?) (event) Austria (?) (geography) Italy (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: Hungarian
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 650 ft; Running time: 11 mins
  • Notes: Soundtrack: the soundtrack to this film consists of military music, and was presumably added by the BBC for its own purposes Technical: note that the three reels of IWM 1034 are numbered as reels 1, 3 and 4. There is no reel 2 Remarks: the training exercises, if this is what they are, look very impressive indeed, although the tactics are rather primitive for the probable date of the film
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1034-4

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