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The Canadian Victory at Courcelette and Advance of the "Tanks"

Item number (ISN):

275543

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1917

Item number (ISN):

275543

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

Accession:

1997-0507

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Canadian Victory at Courcelette

Part:

1 of ?

Production date:

1917

Release date:

1917

Production company:

Canadian Official Films

Production credit:

photography, F.O. Bovill

Sponsor:

War Office Cinema Committee for Canadian War Records Office

Description:

Canadian soldiers voting in the Canadian elections while on the Western Front, 17 December 1917.~Slightly jumbled film of the Canadian forces in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. No tanks appear. Western Front, September 1916.~Alberta basilica, mid-1916. The Canadian 6th Brigade, 2nd Division, led by Brigadier-General H.D.B.Ketchen (past German prisoners) towards the battlefield, halts to rest at La Boisselle crossroads before entering the trench system. A kite balloon is raised to direct fire from 9.2-inch howitzers. A BE2d of the RCF is bombed-up with 112-pound, 40-pound, 20-pound and phosphorous bombs (shown in detail) before taking off. Ground crews signal to the aircraft with identification panels. The aircraft directs the fire of a 4.5-inch howitzer battery. Carrier pigeons, taken forward, return to a mobile loft. <24mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Description from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 466.~2. Despite being of Courcelette, this film has every appearance of being mistitled. The original Canadian Victory at Courcelette was probably a version made for Canadian audiences from The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks.~3. The captioning shows a snide and sarcastic hostility to the Germans very different from either the passionate anger of the French or the deliberately neutral tones of the British.~4. Part 4 of an unknown number of parts.~5. Published Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

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Vault ISN:

307039

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9712-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

307482

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9801-0002

Number of items:

1

Duration:

90:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

996586

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9801-0021

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

9712-0001
8712-0002
9712-0003
8712-0004
8712-0005
8712-0006
8712-0007

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9801-0002

Restrictions on consultation:

~Some items require permission from the donor. See item level records.

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the Imperial War Museum is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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