Uncle Sam's Army.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marches.

Military education.

Officers (Armed Forces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 minute, 50 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1917.

Summary:

"The United States Army is recruited by voluntary enlistment, the actual strength in 1915 being 5,000 officers and 93 thousand men. An inspection of American Troops at a camp in the Southern States". Large number of American troops lining up on a parade ground. Column of black troops (in casual uniforms) walk one by one past an inspecting white officer.

Notes:

Issue number: 287-1 ; Story number within issue: 3 of 4

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.