SCENES ON THE HINDENBURG LINE [Main]


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  • Other title(s): SOME OF THE HINDENBURG LINE [alternative]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 4 mins
  • Description: A British soldier walks through a forest of long, hooked metal poles set in concrete, probably as a form of reinforcement. A barbed wire entanglement more than fifty metres deep. An RAMC man emerges from the entrance to a deep dugout - there is a second entrance nearby. A few British soldiers are digging on the surface, possibly reconstructing the defences. Another pan over belts of deep barbed wire with a light railway train making its way through them, showing the gaps between the successive belts.
    Unedited film of German defences on the Hindenburg Line after their capture by British forces in the Advance to Victory, October 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / defences, German - emplacement: dugout & [captured] & [+] / transport, British military - rail: narrow gauge train / 01/3(4-15).9 / Hindenburg Line, Somme, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound