WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 337-1 (fragment)

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: IWM 662a).

Synopsis

The men of the battalion carry a Star of David flag, and despite the rain have drawn quite a crowd to cheer them. They come level with the Mansion House where the Lord Mayor waits to receive them as they pass.

I. Newsreel item on the march of half of 38th (Jewish) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, past the Lord Mayor of London "To Garrison Jerusalem?", 4th February 1918.

II. Newsreel item on a Holt tractor under trial pulling a limber and men through the desert of Palestine, 1917.

III. Newsreel item on a horsed transport column passing over a small pontoon bridge, Palestine, 1917.

IV. Newsreel item on gunners watering and feeding their horses in a small village near Cambrai, Western Front, November 1917.

Notes

Production: see IWM 651a for production details

Subtitles: these are all flashframes

Summary: see IWM 146 for the Cambrai item. Note that a Spanish language version of this issue is IWM 651c

Technical: this fragment is currently held on the same reel as IWM 662b and IWM 662c, the can is marked as IWM 662

 

Titles

  • WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL TOPICAL BUDGET 337-1 (fragment)
 

Technical Data

Year:
1918
Running Time:
4 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
205 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Sponsor
Department of Information
Sponsor
War Office Cinema Committee
Production company
Topical Film Company