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War Office Official Topical Budget 350-1.

British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film Available online

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Imperial War Museums (Great Britain), owner.
Topical Film Co., production company.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Children.
Evacuation of civilians.
Railroad travel.
Sex.
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Volunteers.
Women.
Work.
Western Front (World War (1914-1918)).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (3 minutes, 20 seconds)) : silent, black and white.
Place of Publication:
[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1918.
Summary:
I. "THE WARRIOR'S MAY QUEEN. Pretty incident in Kent festival." Newsreel item on a children's May Day parade through Kent, 1st May 1918. II. "PACIFIST FIASCO IN LONDON. Attempted meeting and arrests at Finsbury Park." The break-up of a pacifist meeting in Finsbury Park, London, May 1918. III. "COME, GIRLS, SIGN ON." Land Women's fair recruiting sergeant addressing London business girls." Land Girl calling for volunteers in the middle of London, helping one lady to sign on, May 1918. IV. "TOMMY'S CHARACTERISTIC HUMANITY. Evacuating the aged and feeble from villages near Western Front." British soldiers helping refugees, including old ladies, onto a train for evacuation, near Béthune, Western Front, 10th-14th April 1918.
Notes:
Issue number: 350-1.
Series: War Office Official Topical Budget.

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