GB

The prisoner of war camp at El Maadi (or Heliopolis ?) in Egypt for Turkish other ranks ... with the British approach of 'the propaganda of facts' in handling prisoner of war subjects which can be seen in IWM 436 and IWM 441 ...

... IN PALESTINE (held as IWM 1131a and 1131b respectively) may give some idea of the uses to which the film was put post-war. It is also not clear how much of the existing scenes of Allenby and the British forces in Palestine were filmed by Lowell Thomas ...

United States of America

Alternative version of the film held as IWM 41, assembled by IWM staff to restore some approximate coherence to the material.

The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) ...

... camel train sets out into the desert. Arab tribesmen come in out of the desert to join the Sherifian Army. Turkish prisoners of war are brought in out of the desert on camels, and the wounded are given medical treatment by the Sherifian forces. There is a ...

... . (Reel 2) Further scenes of 4.5-inch howitzers of the Indian Army in Mesopotamia (?) and a long sequence of Turkish prisoners of war and refugees from the desert. The Australian Light Horse, or possibly the single British Cavalry regiment in Mesopotamia, ...

... longer in attendance - Reel 2 starts at this point). Indian troops on the march in the desert, Turkish prisoners of war, scenes in Baghdad and Samarra of pottery making, knife grinding, cotton separating and other crafts.

Notes

Title: the title ...

... Western Front, but this probably refers to that near the Dixmude road, North of Ypres

General: this is the first of the War Office Topical Budgets in the NTB series to include after the main titles the declaration that the newsreel devotes all its ...

GB

I. Demonstration of a radio-controlled motor-boat based on the design of the German Fernlenkboote.

I. 'MYSTERY SHIP EXPLAINED. Great interest was shown in the German electric mystery ships, one of which was captured ...

... Author is doing the scenario for a great War Film.' The famous author sits at ... November 1917 reported that the National War Aims Committee proposed to make as large a use as possible of the cinema in war aims propaganda. Hall Caine "promised to do his best ...

GB

I. General Allenby and General Bailloud in Egypt.

I. 'THE VICTOR OF JERUSALEM. General Sir Edmund Allenby who has rescued the Holy City from Turkish domination, reviews one of our mounted brigades.' Aids hold General ...

Great Britain

"AFRICA WORLD WAR COMFORTS SERVICE. Pleasure trips on the Thames. June 1918 (10). Wounded Springboks at Windsor and Eton College (13). The 'Sunbury Belle' arrives at Windsor Wharf. Typical scenes on board. Little friends entertain our ...

TOPICAL BUDGET

"Triumph of the Motor Tractor over the tracts of the wilderness in Palestine". Holt tractor pulling limber and men through the desert in Palestine. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (44ft).