War Office Official Topical Budget 344-1.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Imperial War Museums (Great Britain), owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children.

Hospitals.

Musical instruments.

Nurses.

Politicians.

Red Cross and Red Crescent.

Religion.

Synagogues.

Transportation.

Women.

France. Armée.

Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

Great Britain. Army.

Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, 1897-1965.

Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (5 minutes, 6 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1918.

Summary:

I. 'WAITING AND WATCHFUL. French observers keep a sharp look out on the Champagne Front amid growing forests of wire.' MS of wire entanglements and pan right to show their extent. LS as French soldier climbs ladder up onto a platform built in a tree - below hangs a curtain of fibre matting which can be hauled up to screen the observation post. The tree is currently leafless. French troops walk along duckboards carrying rolls of barbed wire. II. 'PRINCESS MARY'S INVESTITURE. Presentation of chevrons and badges to Women's Land Army at Cambridge.' Princess Mary - wearing a white fox stole - is led past an honour guard of Land Girls to enter the Senate House. She re-emerges to stand on the steps for the distribution of badges and chevrons to women land workers. III. 'REVIEW OF THE TRACTORS. Ploughs of many makes pass General Pitcairn Campbell at the Inspection Base.' The general and his staff stand in a field as four tractors are driven past. General and staff then return to two waiting cars. IV. 'DR. PAGE OPENS HOSPITAL. Society attends opening of American Red Cross Hospital by U.S.A. Ambassador.' Mr and Mrs Page get out of their car to enter the hospital. Page talks with one of the hospital managers. MS pan over an animated group of society people standing in the hospital gardens. V. 'SETTLING DOWN IN PALESTINE. Children listening to an Australian Band playing outside a Synagogue.' Pan left over group of children as the band plays in the background. The synagogue is a substantial building in the European style.

Credits:

Cameramen: Jeapes, Harold

Notes:

Issue number: 344-1.

Series: War Office Official Topical Budget.

With intertitles.