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Volume 22

Item number (ISN):

43629

Series title:

British War Office Official News Film

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1918

Item number (ISN):

43629

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Accession:

1979-0191

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1918

Release date:

1918

Production company:

Re-edited version for release outside Britain of items from the series PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL)
Topical Film Company Ltd.

Country of production:

cn

Sponsor:

British Ministry of Information

Distributor name:

Independent Film Supply Co.

Description:

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Rhondda Opens the Kitchen. Lord Rhondda opens a communal kitchen at Silvertown, West Ham, London, 3 January 1918. Lord Rhondda, the Minister of Food, arrives by car. With him is the Mayor of West Ham, Mr. Will Thorne, MP. A crowd of men, women and children queue with jugs at the kitchen windows to have soup dispensed to them by female workers. There are separate windows for men and women. The children stand with their jugs of soup. Mr. Thorne and Lord Rhondda watch.~The Day of Intercession Service. Crowds leave St. Paul's Cathedral, London, after a service, Sunday 6 January 1918.~Back From the Prison Camps. Repatriated British prisoners of war arrive in Boston, Lincolnshire, January 1918. The hospital ship is docked in Boston harbour, and the men, all with some physical disability, pose for the camera on board. They make their way onto the dock, saying goodbye to the nurses as they do so. A group of them are described as "Old Contemptibles" of the 1914 British Expeditionary Force, who have been in captivity for three years. The ship steams out of the harbour with the nurses waving. The local mayor is among those waiting to greet the soldiers.~Winter Campaigning. A battalion of Chasseurs stand on parade somewhere in the Vosges mountains and present their colours. Soldiers are shown marching as snow falls heavily.~British Detraining in Italy. A train arrives and British soldiers step out, form up, and move their equipment about.~The Women's Legion. Women work in a hangar assembling aircraft in Britain, January 1918. Some of the women are in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). A group of them wheels out the fuselage of a BE2 as a male soldier supervises. Outside the hanger, other women make final checks on a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, tightening the wires. The engine cowling is also checked. The women hold the aircraft's tail after the engine is started to enable it to build up power.~America's Quick Training. US troops (called "Sammies" in the caption) marching in formation near a tent encampment.~In Pursuit of the Turks. Freeze frame of a blown-up bridge span. The bridge spanning the Wadi Hesi was destroyed by retreating Turkish troops. <5mn>

Subjects:

AIRPLANE FACTORIES~ARMED FORCES~ENGLAND~FOOD RELIEF~FRANCE~PRISONERS OF WAR~RELIGIOUS SERVICES~WAR WORK~WOMEN~WORLD WAR, 1914-1918 ~RHONDDA, DAVID A.~THORNE, WILL

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

D-49

Notes:

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1. Description of first 3 items from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 692a. Description for item 6 is from IWM 692b.~2. Captions end with legend "War Office Topical Budget".~3. Item titles are derived from the captions.~4. Released January 1918 in Britain.~5. Title card originally read: BRITISH WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL NEWS FILM/Sole Canadian Distributors: Independent Film Supply Co., Montreal, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, Vancouver. This title no longer exists on elements, or on original nitrate.~6. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

208282

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-7112

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Max. shrinkage:

1.7%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

216706

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9307-0102

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

241055

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7908-1090

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-7112

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

241056

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7908-1089

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7908-1090

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

241057

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8103-0118

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7908-1090

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

507660

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-7095

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

757689

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

43629-001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

8:04

Made from:

7908-1090

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

757692

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

43629.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

8:04

Made from:

7908-1090

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

757693

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

43629.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

8:04

Made from:

7908-1090

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9307-0102

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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