| MOBILE BATH HOUSE Troops in France create a mobile bath and use it happily. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7525 |
| Catalog #: | 280355 | |
| Clip Number: | 280355-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 197 B | |
| Timecode: | 01:51:48 - 01:53:54 | |
| Location: | France | |
| Year Shot: | 1939 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEAUTY CULTURE: Bathing LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France MILITARY: Army, British WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Misc | |
| Description: | France. British troops, presumably BEF (British Expeditionary Force) in France. An army truck is being pushed next to the river - winter, quite cold. A large tent is taken out of the truck and erected next to water. Soldiers work with cigarettes in their mouths. Pan, large white sucks are downloaded from truck on the ground - clothes. A boiler is lifted from track's floor in upright position, fitted with a hose and hose placed into water. Presumably water is sucked in, heated and used for the bath. Soldiers get into the tent with underwear in hands. A man's hand pumps water into a boiler. Another man's hand as he switches boiler on - open flame. Naked soldiers getting from the tent straight into bath - similar to little swimming pools for children. There is a 'curtain' on so only their heads and bare shoulders are seen. A group of happy looking soldiers jumps up and down in the bath. Soldiers in uniforms standing next to their mobile bath house, some buttoning up their jackets. | |
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