WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 375-1 (fragment) [Main]


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  • Other title(s): PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL) 375-1 (fragment) [alternative]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 5 mins
  • Description: The Prince is met at Dover harbour by Prince Arthur of Connaught. The two men walk down the gangplank of Prince Yorihito's ship together and salute the flags of their nations. Next, a brief, indistinct scene of Prince Yorihito's drive through London in an open carriage with King George V.Two of the soldiers, one in a top hat and the other a pickelhaube, stare at a German sign. The two are pushed by a third through a square cleared of rubble in a wrecked German car without an engine.
    I. Newsreel item on British residents of Lille leaving a church after the liberation of the city. They pass a German wooden dummy of a Whippet tank, Western Front, October 1918.II. Newsreel item on the visit of Prince Yorihito of Higashi-Fushimi to Britain, 28th October 1918.III. Newsreel item on the dedication, by the Lord Mayor of London, of a war shrine "In Memory of the Fallen", London, October 1918.IV. Newsreel item of the last known (and poor quality) film of Grand Duke Nicholas, the former Russian Commander-in-Chief, reviewing troops in Russia, autumn 1918.V. Newsreel item of British soldiers clowning in the ruins of Cambrai after its liberation, October 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / George V, King / Yorihito, Prince of Japan / Arthur of Connaught (HRH Prince) / Marshall, Horace / London, Lord Mayor of / Nicholas, Grand Duke of Russia / Red Army / British Army / religion, Christianity - ceremonial, British / buildings, French - religious: church / equipment, German - decoy: dummy tank / armour, British - tank: Tank Medium A Whippet (dummy) / delegations, Japanese international - goodwill / buildings, British - monumental: war shrine / recreation, British military - casual: [+] / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / 01/3(4-15).9 / 31/3(41) / 31/3(41) / 31/3(47) / 01/3(4-15).9 / Lille, Nord, France / Dover, Kent, England, UK / London, England, UK / London, England, UK / Russia / Cambrai, Nord, France
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Topical Film Company
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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