PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 9 [Main]


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  • Anno: 1919
  • Durata: 18 mins
  • Descrizione: Troops repairing bridges throw rocks to splash the camera. Varennes (where, in July, 3rd Division earned the title 'Marne') showing extensive damage. An American discovering a German booby trap (acted) with a demonstration of how they work. A US Signal Corps wireless station at Villeret. A patrol in a wood checks apparently dead Germans (acted?). American dugouts in the hills near Varennes. 75mm guns moving into position in the Cuisy area. American troops attacking under shellfire in the Meuse advance. German prisoners being put onto a train. "Gotham Boys", presumably 27th (New York) Division at Ronssoy, their divisional headquarters, in September. A field signal unit demonstrates a mechanical wire-twister. Transport of 35th Division moving through the ruins of Cheppy. A pile of loaves showing the rations for one division for one day. Limbers of the Field Artillery move up while observers use trench periscopes. 155mm guns of V Corps on the Exermont road. US Engineers repair a girder bridge. An overturned 155mm gun on the road. A posed group of German prisoners. A view of Exermont with Côte 240 behind it, 35th Division area. American and French officers in an observation post at the base of a hill. US Infantry crouched in foxholes in a wood, then advancing in short rushes from hole to hole.
    US film of their own forces showing the battlefield of the Second Battle of the Marne and troops during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Western Front, October 1918.
  • Parole chiave: EFG1914 / World War I / United States Army & American Expeditionary Force / United States Army & Signal Corps / United States Army & Div 27 / United States Army & Div 35 / United States Army & Corps 5 & [gunners] / United States Army & Engineers / French Army / engineering, military, United States / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / weapons, German - passive: booby-trap & [captured] / communications, United States military - electronic / casualties, German dead - battlefield / weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun & [United States] / prisoners of war, German - movement / transport, United States military - rail / transport, United States military - animal / supplies, United States, storage [RA] - food / equipment, United States - personal: trench periscope / combat, United States / combat, United States - artillery bombardment [I] / 01/3(4-15).96 / Varennes, Somme, France / Villeret, Aisne, France / Cuisy, Meuse, France / Ronssoy, Somme, France / Cheppy, Meuse, France / Exermont, Ardennes, France / Côte 240, Verdun, Meuse, France / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
  • Fonte esterna: Imperial War Museums
  • Diritti: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Casa di produzione: US Signal Corps
  • Colori: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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