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  • Kitas pavadinimas (ai): MARTYRED BELGIUM [on copy held]
  • Metai: 1916
  • Trukmė: 8 mins
  • Aprašymas: (Missing is an opening sequence showing the tearing up of the treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality.) 'Martyred Belgium' is the title introducing 'scene 2'. Britannia posed beside the figure of 'Belgium' and her dead children. "What are others doing for us?" A soldier sets out for war leaving his parents in a country cottage. Muddy conditions on the Western Front are shown. A letter from the front pleads "for God's sake don't let us down". French troops train in the snow of the Vosges area. A ward for convalescent soldiers in a big hospital, "what others are suffering for us". The parents in the country cottage read in the newspaper of their son's death. Two upper-class parents hear the same news, as does a young mother with a baby and two young children, and the widow of an aristocratic naval officer, beside his portrait. The cities of France and Belgium - Rheims, Arras, Ypres - are shown ruined, but central London is untouched. A destroyer and a battle-cruiser on patrol symbolise protection. But ships must be paid for. Soldiers are shown receiving their pay. A munitions shop at work is shown. "One hand grenade can put out of action four or five persons... and six grenades cost 15/-." A War Bond costs 15/6d, which will buy six grenades or 124 rounds of ammunition. The Chancellor, R McKenna, is quoted urging people to buy the bonds, and a man is shown at the Post Office doing so. (A closing sequence also appears to be missing.)
    Incomplete copy of a film combining propaganda with an appeal for the British people to buy War Bonds, April 1916.
  • Raktažodžiai: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army / Royal Navy, Indomitable / French Army / Post Office / propaganda, British - practical / ships, British naval - destroyer: B Class / ships, British naval - battleship: Indomitable / destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment / destruction, Belgian military - area: artillery bombardment / weapons, British - grenade: Mills bomb / ceremonies, British - customary: pay parade / industry, British - munitions / medical, British military - hospital: [+] / 31/3(41) / Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France / Reims, Marne, France / Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium / GB, England & London, SW / GB, England & London, SW / Colnbrook, Berkshire, England, UK / Vosges, France / snow / Children / Children and war
  • Tiekėjas: Imperial War Museums
  • Teisės: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Gamybos kompanija: Gaumont
  • Spalva: Black & White
  • Director: Pearson, George
  • Sound: Without sound