WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 335-1 (fragment) [Main]
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Rok: 1918
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Minutáž: 3 mins
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Popis: The men march in the rain through the streets, led by military bands and with a police escort. The men enter a building with a Union Jack draped over the entrance.The men are shown working on a railway track, after which they form up and march off. They pose in a group for the camera.A nursing home behind the lines where Copin, his wife and child, and two blind aunts are led out by nurses. Copin was a French soldier captured by Germans in September 1914 who escaped and was hidden by his wife in his own home at Masnières near Cambrai until the village was captured by the British in November 1917. He poses for the camera with his wife and child.
I. Newsreel item on a church parade by the National Federation of Ex-Soldiers and Sailors in Britain, January 1918.II. Newsreel item on F Company, 11th US Railway Engineers, who fought at Cambrai, Western Front, December 1917.III. Newsreel item on Jules Copin, a Frenchman freed with his family by the British during the First Battle of Cambrai, Western Front, November 1917.
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Klíčová slova: EFG1914 / World War I / Copin, Jules / National Federation of Ex-Soldiers and Sailors / United States Army & American Expeditionary Force / United States Army & Railway Engineers 11, F Coy / ceremonies, British - display / engineering, military, United States / refugees, French - settlement / 31/3(41) / 01/3(4-15).7 / 01/3(4-15).7 / GB, England / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / rain / propaganda, British / Children / Children and war / Age
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Poskytovatel: Imperial War Museums
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Práva: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Produkční společnost: Topical Film Company
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Barva: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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