... a transport substitute for the camel which marches to War in Palestine today as it did thousands of years ago". Long ... (57ft).

(FRANCE'S MOROCCAN TROOPS) "On their way to a theatre of war" (53ft).

VENICE IN WAR TIME "Its thousand canals used for ...

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"Mosque and picturesque scenes in Palestine now occupied by the British". Mosque of Omar and surrounding buildings. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (60ft).

... not. By dissolves the countries that declare war in 1914 and later are darkened in, ... the order in which they joined the war: Canada, Newfoundland, British West Indies, ... and the global effect of the declarations of war, 1914-1918. Each 'take' is introduced ...

... taken from the store ledger.

Intertitles: these are all flashframes.

Date: the shotsheet refers to Allenby as "Lord Allenby", a title he did not receive until after the war.

Summary: see also IWM 6, IWM 58, IWM 60, IWM 71 and IWM 79.

... 1917, on the Western Front of the Great War, the Third Army, under the ... Jeapes, a cameraman working for the War Office Cinematograph Committee (WOCC) in Palestine ... Gooding

Grigg, John. Lloyd George: War Leader 1916-18 (London: Allen ...

... ) leaving their headquarters at Beersheba, ending with a portrait shot of Chauvel.

Notes

Summary: the 5 February 1917 entry in the War Diary in the Public Record Office (PRO 95/4438) says "cinema operator much in evidence" but does not give a ...

... .

Notes

Summary: see also IWM 60.

Remarks: a very pleasant, nicely filmed little piece, worlds away from war photography and a good illustration of the quality the cameramen could provide if not working under the constraints of active ...

GB

An RAMC doctor, probably Major Paterson, who was doctor in Hebron for 31 years before the war, talking to a group of Arabs; followed by a slow panorama of Hebron, ending at the mosque. Palestine Front, 1918.

Notes

Title: this is taken from ...

... Regiment in France, 22-26 June 1918.

(Reel 1) Bennett arrives at Boulogne on 22 June, met by Major H A Timewell and war correspondents H M Beeton and Frederick McKenzie. Next day Bennett inspects the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at Ecuires, talking ...

... by the trade press during the war, nor is there any reference to it in official ... ’. He concluded though that no official war films ‘indulge in the propaganda ... titles are used to re-contextualise existing war footage, and in particular of the ways ...

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A review of the British war effort on all fronts and at home, 1915-1916.

The episode ... of the Army and Navy in the first twelve months of the war. A new merchant ship is launched. Australian soldiers in dress uniform ...

... would take a week to make a million marks". One day's British war expenditure in 1914, represented by John Bull on a gold pile, was ... , and in 1917 six million pounds. To the end of 1917 total war expenditure was 6,951,852,472 pounds, which "in sovereigns ...