Topical Budget 273-1.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Imperial War Museums (Great Britain), owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture.

Church buildings.

Mayors.

Medicine.

Parades.

Red Cross and Red Crescent.

Religion.

Canada. Canadian Army.

France. Armée.

Russia. Armiia.

Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg, 1857-1944.

Royal family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (3 minutes, 38 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1916.

Summary:

I. 'FIGHTING DISEASE. Troops in the Balkans being inoculated against enteric etc., before going up to the Front.' Australian troops stand in line in the open-air, left shirt sleeves rolled up to receive their injection. Afterwards each injection mark is painted with antiseptic. II. 'MUNICIPAL SUNDAY. The Mayor and Corporation attend service at Southwark Cathedral, being the first Sunday after their election.' Mayor and retinue followed by civilian dignitaries and military men file out of the cathedral past police guard. MS head and shoulders of the new mayor, in conventional dress but wearing his chain of office. He is nodding and bows at the very end of the sequence. III. 'LINK OF EMPIRE. Princess Henry of Battenberg presents a silk Union Jack to the contingent of Newfoundland troops at Chelsea Hospital, and inspects the guard of honour.' The Princess takes a large Union Jack from one officer and passes it on to another who comes forward to receive the flag. Cut to the Princess as she steps back and the others applaud. Newfoundland troops present arms. IV. 'ARMY ECONOMY. Men in training at the Army Service Corps depôt at Osterley Park have converted waste land into a garden, and are growing their own vegetables.' Men rake between young seedlings - huts in background. Two soldiers standing in a field of Brussels sprouts hold up two of the vegetables. An officer admires the sprouts - cut to men file into one of the huts. V. 'SOLDIERS OF THE CZAR. French and Serbian troops line the streets of Salonika as the Russians march to their camp, led by their band.' MS along city street as Russians troop march into camera - among the band is a uniformed but very young boy. MS as soldiers march away - French troop line the side of the route.

Notes:

Issue number: 273-1.

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.