CANADIAN SECTIONS 1 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: CANADIAN SECTIONS 1 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1188
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  • Summary: Fragmentary film of Canadian troops on the Western Front, probably during the Battle of Arras, April 1917.
  • Description: The Duke of Connaught is taken on a conducted tour over an old part of a battlefield (this visit took place on 17 March). Canadians in a rear position relax and smoke in dugouts. A tented rest camp. A long-range view of houses being shelled. More shellfire, possibly on a training range. Soldiers prepare to take heavy loads of ammunition and equipment on their backs forward from the rear areas through the trenches. Pan over an old battlefield with half-destroyed buildings. A tented camp with Canadian gunners exercising their horses. Men of the Tank Corps do maintenance work on their Mark IV tanks; one man draws an elaborate Maple Leaf on the nose of his tank.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917-03-11 1917-04
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Canadian War Records Office (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Connaught [George] (HRH Duke of) (person) British Army, Tank Corps (regiment/service) Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: combat, Canadian - artillery bombardment [D] (object name) operations, Canadian military - routine (object name) supplies, Canadian, movement [FA] - misc: [+] (object name) operations, British military - maintenance (object name) destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) 01/3(4-15) (event) 01/3(4-15).63 (?) (event) France (geography) Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 740 ft; Running time: 12 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Remarks: some good material, particularly the carrying party. It cannot be positively dated, apart from the visit by the Duke of Connaught.
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