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Episode 1, Winter on the Western Front

Item number (ISN):

19994

Series title:

Sons of Our Empire

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1917

Item number (ISN):

19994

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

LOMBARD

Accession:

1969-0030

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1917

Release date:

1917-04-09

Production company:

Topical Film Company

Production credit:

producer, William F. Jury; photography, J.B. McDowell; H.C. Raymond

Sponsor:

War Office Cinema Committee

Description:

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Winter training for British troops and Bapaume after its capture, Western Front, early 1917.~Winter training for British troops. Infantry guns and Highlanders move in colums along the roads up to the snow-covered trenches. Hot soup is brought to the troops in the trenches. A dawn "stand-to". Rifle grenades and a 3-inch Stokes mortar are test-fired. A bombardment in snow by various British guns: 6-inch howitzers, 9.2-inch howitzers, 18-pounders, and 60-pounders, directed by air observation. A major daylight trench raid throught the snow, covered by smoke grenades. The raid is in four waves, including wiring parties. Meanwhile, other trenches are repaired and 6-inch howitzers continue the harassing fire.~Damage to Bapaume shown after its capture. Highland Light Infantry (?) repair the Bapaume Road. A panorama of the town starting with the railway station. Views from rue de Casernes and rue de Bapaume. Some buildings are still smouldering and parties of British troops who walk by warm themselves by the fires. A detailed scene of the railway station. A German observation post on top of the sugar factory. More damage, including the town hall, and a Vickers machinegun emplacement on rue de Péronne. British troops, including lorry-mounted 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns, move through the town. Australians, probably of Australian 5th Division, enter the town. <34mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Description from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 130-01+2.~2. Reference videocassette has recorded this item in segments, separated by other episodes in the series.~3. The original version of this episode of SONS OF OUR EMPIRE, which was devoted entirely to winter training, was first shown at the Scala Theatre, London, on 21 March 1917. Shortly afterward the Germans abandoned Bapaume in their retreat to the Hindenburg Line and film of the captured town was included in the version of the episode released to the public on 9 April 1917.~4. By extensive use of stock footage, this episode and the remainder of the series seek to give the impression that Bapaume fell as the direct consequence of a major British offensive, which it did not. In effect, the series portrays a non-existant battle.~5. The decision to include the material of Bapaume as soon as it was received has meant that the series shows this material of April 1917 considerably before the episode of Courcelette in November 1916.~6. Copyright owner: Imperial War Museum as per fax dated 14 April 1998.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

17534

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-1190
N-1191
N-1192
N-1194
N-1195
N-1196
N-1197
N-1268
N-1269

Number of items:

9

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Max. shrinkage:

1.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

17535

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1190
N-1191
N-1192
N-1193
N-1194
N-1195
N-1196
N-1268
N-1269

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

17538

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0013

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1192

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

17539

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0014

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7301-0013

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

17540

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0007

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7301-0001

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

17541

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8102-0320
8102-0321
8102-0322
8102-0323
8102-0324
8102-0325

Number of items:

6

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7301-0001
7301-0002
7301-0003
7301-0004
7301-0005
7301-0006

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

17542

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8301-0005

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

44479

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-4480

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7301-4482

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

44487

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-4481

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7301-4482

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

44490

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-4482

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1190
N-1191
N-1192
N-1194
N-1195
N-1196
N-1268
N-1269

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

176924

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9107-0043
9107-0044
9107-0045
9107-0046
9107-0047
9107-0048
9107-0049
9107-0050

Number of items:

8

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1190
N-1191
N-1192
N-1193
N-1194
N-1195
N-1196
N-1197
N-1268
N-1269

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

176925

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9107-0051
9107-0052
9107-0053
9107-0054
9107-0055
9107-0056
9107-0057
9107-0058

Number of items:

8

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

9107-0043
9107-0044
9107-0045
9107-0046
9107-0047
9107-0048
9107-0049
9107-0050

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

176926

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9107-0059
9107-0060
9107-0061
9107-0062
9107-0063
9107-0064
9107-0065
9107-0066

Number of items:

8

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9107-0043
9107-0044
9107-0045
9107-0046
9107-0047
9107-0048
9107-0049
9107-0050

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

853270

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

19994-001
19994-002
19994-003
19994-004
19994-005
19994-006
19994-007
19994-008
19994-009
19994-010

Number of items:

10

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

29:43

Made from:

9107-0043
N-1191
N-1192
N-1193
N-1994
N-1995
N-1996
N-1997
N-1268
N-1269

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

854355

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

19994.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

29:43

Made from:

9107-0043
N-1191
N-1192
N-1268
N-1269
N-1994
N-1995
N-1996
N-1997

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

854360

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

19994.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

29:43

Made from:

19994.MOV

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

991273

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9202-0050

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

8405-0465
8002-0375
8706-0074
8505-0186
7301-0248
8009-0535
9107-0043
9107-0044
9107-0045
9107-0046
9107-0047
9107-0048
9107-0049
9107-0050
8009-0344
7301-0023

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8301-0005

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Imperial War Museum.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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