Metadata
- Title: WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY [Main Title]
- Film Number: IWM 1062-1
- Other titles: WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN THE CAUCASUS [Alternative Title]
- Summary: Russian forces, including the Tsar and the General Staff, on the Caucasus Front, Easter 1916.
- Description: A field howitzer (tinted grey), part of a battery, fires from a gun pit in the snow of the mountains. General "Selivanoff" (sic) (tinted yellow) sitting in his car with another officer. A Red Cross horse-drawn ambulance (tinted blue) arrives at a permanent hospital and wounded are helped from it. Grand Duke Nicholas, the Commander-in-Chief (tinted grey) talks with other officers beside his headquarters train in a forest. A group of officers watches while their men collect Easter presents of tobacco, and start to light pipes or roll cigarettes. A senior officer (tinted yellow) inspects the horse lines - one horse tries to bite him. Cossacks (tinted grey) perform an impromptu dance to the music of an accordion. Infantry sit in the falling snow by a wood eating. A marching column of dismounted Cossacks. An Orthodox priest (tinted blue) walks on the surface along a slit trench, blessing the men in the trench as he goes. Turkish prisoners of war, some wounded, are sent to the rear. Cossacks (tinted orange) mill around on horseback, canter up a road, then make a charge in line against the camera. Tsar Nicholas (tinted grey) walks with his party down a difficult hill path. He talks with Grand Duke Nicholas beside his headquarters train. A posed group of the Tsar and Nicholas with their staff officers (Stavka) and chaplain. A camel train (tinted blue) makes its way through the snowbound hills.
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1062-1)
- Featured Period: 1914-1918
- Production Date: 1916
- Production Country: France
- Production Details: Pathe Freres (Production company)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia (person) Nicholas Nikolayevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (person) Selivanov (General) (person) Imperial Russian Army (regiment/service)
- Keywords: combat, Russian - artillery bombardment (object name) transport, Russian military - animal ambulance (object name) casualties, Russian wounded (object name) medical, Russian military - movement: animal ambulance (object name) buildings, Russian - institutional: hospital (object name) transport, Russian military - rail: headquarters train (object name) society, Russian military - charity (object name) ceremonies, Russian - customary (object name) society, Russian military - sustenance (object name) animals, mammals: horse (object name) society, Russian military - ethnic (object name) recreation, Russian military - casual: dance (object name) religion, Christianity - military, Russian (object name) prisoners of war, Turkish - movement (object name) combat [simulated], Russian - cavalry (object name) animals, mammals: camel (object name) 01/3(4-11).7 (event) Russia & South Russia (geography) snow (concept)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W (Tinted) Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 775 ft; Running time: 13 mins
- Notes: Title: the alternative title appears at the end of the film Production: the collection of films held as IWM 1062 reels 1-22 was given to the IWM in the early 1970s by Mrs Bing Maddicks. They represent a selection of film from the First World War, mostly coherent films, one to a reel Distribution: the Sir William Jury papers in BFI Special Collections include a copy of an undated Scala Theatre programme for a show called AT THE FRONT. As prelude to THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME after the interval, the first half offered seven short subjects from other fronts and sectors, one of which (WITH THE RUSSIAN ARMIES) may have been a version of this film. Summary: compare with IWM 650
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