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EXODUS OF THE POPULATION [Main]
1917
Imperial War Museums
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- RUINED VILLAGES OF FRANCE (ledger title) [alternative]

Damage in the Roye-Soissons area, showing many of the smaller towns and villages. Destroyed fruit trees. A desecrated cemetery at Tergnier. Damaged houses at Coucy-la-Ville and Coucy-le-Château. The ...

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the WAR WOMEN OF ENGLAND [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

I. A recruiting march by girls of the Women's Land Army in central London, April 1918. Members of the Women's Land Army form an escort for the Lord Mayor of London, Charles A Hanson, as he enters Sain...

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SCENES ON THE WESTERN FRONT [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

Unrelated scenes with no continuity or storyline, mainly taken from the GERMAN OFFENSIVE series of Spring 1918, showing the British sector of the Western Front between March and April 1918. An additio...

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WITH OUR BOYS AT THE FRONT (first version) [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

The funeral of a nurse killed when one of the British military hospitals in France was bombed (deliberately, according to the film) by the Germans in their March offensive. The caption style which is ...

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WITH OUR BOYS AT THE FRONT (second version) [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

The film's captions are outspoken and dramatic. "We are moving forward to Victory, and our soldiers are marching along the long road without faltering. We at home must set our teeth and have patience....

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JOHN BROWN JOINS THE ARMY [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

The film takes a typical case, "John Brown", a clerk aged 30, single with one dependent (a sister ?) living in his own house in Catford in the suburbs of London. On the outbreak of war he attested. Af...

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WOMEN AND THE WAR [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...

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the WOMEN'S LAND ARMY [Main]
1917
Imperial War Museums

The film uses acted material to show two "ladies of leisure" riding in Rotten Row, contrasted with the "women of action" of the Land Army practising drill. The two ladies decide to join the Land Army ...

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