Why Not Berlin?.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavalry.

Crowds.

Horses.

Officers (Armed Forces.

Soldiers.

Tanks (Military science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 minute, 41 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1921.

Summary:

"WHY NOT BERLIN? British and French commanders inspect Allied armies of occupation at Dusseldorf" (11). A bridge over the Rhine; pedestians walk along it as does a French soldier on guard (18). A column of horse-drawn French army vehicles crossing the bridge (24). Four British (?) tanks (marked E24,E21, E22) and an army lorry parked in a square, a small crowd watches (32). Civillians watching the movement of a tank (48). British mounted troops (wearing tin hats) and gun carriages crossing a square (70). British and French officers inspecting French troops (78); more French troops crossing the same square (91). The officers talking in a group outside the Hansa-Hotel (93). A British soldier on guard outside a building with a sign reading "Commandant British Area of Control". He moves back the watching crowd.

Notes:

Issue number: 498-2 ; Story number within issue: 4 of 4

Note: The issue book gives only one German story each for issues 498-1 and 498-2, but there are three separate items on film. The London conference broke down on the 7th and Allied troops occupied Dusseldorf on the 8th. The issue book mentions use of material from an 'old budget', so that it would appear reasonable to assume that the above two stories belong to issue 498-1, the second using library material to represent the occupation. By the time 498-2 came out Topical had actuality material from Dusseldorf.

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.