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Episode 3 = [Red Cross Dressing Station : incomplete]
Series title:The World's Greatest Story = [Canadian War Records. August Offensive]Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1916Item number (ISN):20371Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION: CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTEAccession:1972-0108Media:FilmPart:1 of 2Production date:1916Release date:1919Production company:War Office Official
New Era FilmDescription:Thematic treatment (re-edited from THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME) of the opening of the British offensive on the Somme, July 1916.~Stretcher bearers, "the battlefield became almost a sanctuary, so well did those brave men of the Red Cross perform their glorious task". 4.7-inch field guns firing. The dressing station at Minden Post, where "the very slightly wounded prepare to return to the fight". More bombardment. A chaplain talks to to wounded man, "through all the scarlet horror of war was interwoven the thread of sweet compassion by the Padre forvever tending to the needy". German prisoners are marched away from the battlefield. <8mn 30s>Language:Silent with English intertitlesNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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