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Manoeuvres: Artillery Gunfire Etc.

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

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
British Film Institute, owner.
Topical Film Co., production company.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Artillery.
Military education.
Radio broadcasting.
Western Front (World War (1914-1918)).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (7 minutes, 15 seconds)) : silent, black and white.
Place of Publication:
[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, [between 1911 and 1930]
Summary:
Production footage for a Topical Budget news item. Listed as Box 36. Series of shots featuring four field guns being loaded and fired. No titles. LS/MS control point for the artillery exercise. Two officers lie on ground, one with two (?) telephones clamped to ears. Other officers stand about. LS/MS series of shots featuring four guns being loaded, ready for firing indicated and firing. The control point. Field artillery firing. Control point - a soldier signals with flags. The guns are hitched to lorries and driven across open, flat fields. The guns are unhitched and set up for firing. Series of shots showing loading and firing. Guns hitched to lorries and driven off. More firing.
Notes:
Issue number: Unknown.
Series: Topical Budget.
With intertitles.

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