Messter Woche 43, 1915, German Troops on the Western Front
| Title |
Messter Woche 43, 1915, German Troops on the Western Front
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| Author |
Messter Film
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| Notes |
Portuguese language version of a German newsreel of their own forces in the area of Lille, occupied France, autumn 1915. British prisoners, probably from the Battle of Loos, are marched through the streets of Lille with a mounted escort. German wounded are taken by ambulance to a temporary hospital in the town and unloaded. Soldiers distribute meat to the people (mainly old men and women) of Lille. Nearer the battle zone, a horse from a gun-team is coaxed out from a patch of mud. Members of the ""General Staff""(probably not the Grosse Generalstab) visit a ruined church. Sappers repair a trench blown in by British shells. Work in a sawmill and timber-yard. A dog kept as a mascot in the rear trenches. The headquarters of a front-line battalion in a deep dugout. A Cavalry commander, General von Laffert with his staff beside a château. A mining operation in which sappers take sandbags into the forward trenches and carry earth away from the mine. A view over no man's land from the front trenches - a sniper fires across at the British. The rest of the troops take up position on the firing-step and open fire. (All the trenches are very well made and dry.)
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| Item date |
October 1915
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| Creation place |
Lille, France
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| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Content | |
| Cataloguer |
Alisa Miller
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| Filename |
IWMFILM483-01-low.mp4
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| Copyright |
The Imperial War Museum Film Archive
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| Digital repository | |
| Collection ID |
IWM 483-1
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| Repository name |
Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
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| Repository address line1 |
Imperial War Museum
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| Repository address line2 |
Lambeth Road
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| Repository address line3 |
London
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| Repository address Zip code |
SE1 6HZ
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| Repository address country |
UK
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| Repository address URL | |
| Publication editor |
Unknown
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| Producer |
Messter, O.
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| Cameramen |
Unknown
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Collection
Citation
“Messter Woche 43, 1915, German Troops on the Western Front,” by Messter Film. The Imperial War Museum Film Archive via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5521.
Permitted Use
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