INSPECTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: IWM 6).
Synopsis
Probably 3rd or 4th Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, with its camel battery, the Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Battery, training on the Palestine Front, early 1917.
The display begins with a parade and marchpast, followed by men of the ICC setting out for a patrol in the desert and drawing river water for their camels. This is broken by sequences of horse and mule riders in the desert, and a demonstration of assembling its guns by the Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Battery of the Indian Army, attached to the Imperial Camel Corps (this was the only camel-mounted battery equipped with 10-pounder breechloading mountain guns on active service).
Notes
Intertitles: these are flashframes.
Summary: see also IWM 58 and IWM 60.
Technical: most of the film appears as slightly out-of-focus.
Titles
- INSPECTION OF THE IMPERIAL CAMEL CORPS
- Series Title:
- ON THE PALESTINE FRONT
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1918
- Running Time:
- 18 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 35mm
- Colour:
- B&W
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 1094 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- Sponsor
- War Office Cinema Committee (?)
- cameraman
- Jeapes, Harold
- Production company
- Topical Film Company