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Description: | Stanley Holloway remembers historical events of 1916.
(Reel 1) Footage of the war on the Eastern Front. London - activities on the home front (flag day, garden party, fairground etc). War casualties involved in various activities. Lord Mayor's Show - war relics and captured aircraft etc displayed. Receptions for heroes, processions, Labour Party march. (Reel 2) Verdun - French and German lines, local children, artillery, railway gun. Pétain reviews troops. Battle of Jutland - footage of this and of the German fleet. Funeral of John Travers Cornwell VC in London. Other memorials are unveiled in suburban streets. (Reel 3) Zeppelins over Paris. Crashed Zeppelin L49. Damaged buildings after raid. Wreckage of Zeppelin at Cuffley; footage of Leefe Robinson VC who had shot it down. Dublin devastated after the Easter Rising; Liberty Hall (Republican HQ) in ruins. (Reel 4) America - Woodrow Wilson elected President (unsuccessfully tries to stop war). London - pacifists enter church, besieged by angry mob. The first armoured fighting vehicles; the "army horse" and the Mark I tank. Britain - women workers. The Somme - artillery and trench warfare footage. Asquith resigns as Prime Minister to make way for Lloyd George. Glimpse of Churchill, a cabinet member once again.
35mm | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Wynder, Harry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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