a MACHINE GUN BATTALION TRAINING IN FRANCE, THE MEN LUDENDORFF FEARS [Main]


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  • Autre(s) titre(s): the MEN LUDENDORFF FEARS [alternative]
  • Année: 1918
  • Durée: 19 mins
  • Description: (Reel 1) Exercises and physical training on a parade ground. The trainees strip and re-assemble a Vickers machine gun. This is followed by a demonstration of a machine which fills cartridge belts automatically. Four machine guns blast a hole through an 18-inch deep (50 cm) sandbag parapet at a range of about 100 yards/metres. A machine gun section on the march with its eight pack mules entering the start of a trench system. A machine gun platform hidden in a tree. Back at the parade ground, teams of three demonstrate setting up and dismantling their machine guns. A sports interval of wrestling on horseback and officers' quoit tennis. An RE8 overflies the school slowly so that machine-gunners can practise sighting on it. A section coming out of the line is "greeted" (acted?) by men at the school. The men out of the line strip and clean their weapons. (Reel 2) A series of demonstrations of machine gun tactics. A section of four machine guns shows how to conduct a retreat at the gallop, moving the guns in pairs from cover to cover in limber carts. Men crawl forward in long grass to set up a "nest" undetected. Machine-gunners and Infantry make a practice attack under smoke and shellfire. Finally "the dogs of war", a head-on shot of a mascot dog balanced on the barrel of a machine gun fades into a shot of a man aiming the same gun at the camera.
    Demonstrations of tactics with the Vickers machine gun at the Machine Gun Corps Training School at Rombly, France, 15-17 June 1918.
  • Mots-clés: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Machine Gun Corps / training, British military - weapons: machine gun & [+] / weapons, British - smallarm: Vickers machine gun & [+] / animals, mammals: dog (mascot) / recreation, British military - casual: quoit tennis / recreation, British military - sport: wrestling on horseback / aircraft, British - combat: Royal Aircraft Establishment RE8 / 01/3(4-15).8 / Machine Gun Corps Training School, Rombly, Pas-de-Calais, France / Instruction
  • Fournisseur: Imperial War Museums
  • Droits: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Société de production: Topical Film Company
  • Couleur: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound