| Western Front Scenes. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5178 |
| Catalog #: | 367945 | |
| Clip Number: | 367945-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 243 F | |
| Timecode: | 01:20:07 - 01:24:23 | |
| Location: | Belgium or France | |
| Year Shot: | ||
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEMETERIES: Military LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Misc MILITARY: Army, USA WORLD WAR ONE, MILITARY: Battle | |
| Description: | Montage of U.S.troops in WWI Western Front -type scenes,engaged in various activities (some of which may be training or reenactment footage). MLS group of American soldiers removing a tree trunk. Horse-drawn wagon approaching on dirt road. Small tank (looks like French Renault light tank) comes toward and past on same road has a little spade symbol on tank turret. U.S.soldiers wearing gas masks; advancing to rt.; through smoke; carrying rifles w/ bayonets attached. Quick glimpse LS of soldier in smoke-, stumbling - -orabbing w/ bayonet; or stumbling. MS Soldiers in ditch or trench, stand w/ rifles, looking out. Then soldiers walk through bombed area w/ flattened structure in clearing, smoke coming from something in BG; one soldier picks up German helmet. Brief shot desolate burned battlefield. Corpse in woods (may be posed). American soldiers pass by; w/ pistols- -searching woods; one looks at the body. Next; pan left on military cemetery; then pan rt on the burnt battlefield. MS soldiers pass by in different directions searching woods - - dense thicket of small trees. MLS pan on soldiers on hillside in wooded area, keeping very still w/ rifles ready, one crouches in front of cave opening; some crouched or lying on hill, some in dugouts. LS soldiers running across a street in bomb-damaged village, with body on ground near abandoned tank - -same French-made tank seen before. Back to earlier scene bombed area at edge of woods. CU/MS Soldiers sawing tree in sections - working in pairs w/ double saws. Soldiers in gas masks run through smoke, rt to left. Pan cemetery again with crosses of various designs and sizes. CU grave marker: simple cross that says merely "British soldier". battle; action; violence; death | |
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