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