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Anno: 1916
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Durata: 1 min
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Descrizione: I. 'PALACE OF VERSAILLES AS HOSPITAL: Scenes in the French Red Cross hospital where the "Poilus" are cared for by charming nurses'. Nurses and a doctor attend to a patient. One of the long rooms of the Palace of Versailles has been converted into a ward, in which doctors and nurses are carrying out a tour of inspection. Some of the patients, sitting in bed or walking around.II. 'MARRIED MENS' (sic) CALL: How the first groups of married men to be called to the colours, will be trained, before they are passed as for the front'. Scenes of shirt-sleeved recruits being put through their paces: drill, exercises, weapons training (bayonet and machine gun) and practice in trenches.III. 'KEEPING FIT AT SEA: Middies occupy their spare time with racing for the championship of the Fleet'. Sailors hold a rowing race. (Abrupt end.)
I. Versailles in use as a hospital.II. Married men go to war.III. Rowing race
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Parole chiave: EFG1914 / World War I / French Red Cross / medical, French military - hospital / recruitment, British: conscripts, WW1 / training, British military / recreation, British naval - sport: rowing / Versailles, Yvelines, France / GB
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Fonte esterna: Imperial War Museums
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Diritti: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Casa di produzione: Topical Film Company
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Colori: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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