ANNALES DE LA GUERRE 60 [Main]


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  • Ano: 1918
  • Duração: 10 mins
  • Descrição: A brief scene of Marshal Joffre receiving a civilian delegation outside his headquarters. Shells of various calibres stacked in a munitions dump, and Engineers pulling a box girder bridge into position across a river, with the piers of the old bridge standing beside the new, in the Somme region. Limbered US 155mm howitzers move up a road. US soldiers on a route march, including a machine gun company with its light carts. Most of the men wave at the camera. Soldiers move through a trench and look out from the summit of Mont Plémont. The commander of a colonial division with a Moroccan regiment attached to it (name censored) is decorated by General Humbert with the Croix de Guerre. Humbert inspects the division, which marches past. 320mm railway guns "which silenced the guns bombarding Paris" are loaded and fired.
    French newsreel of events on the Western Front, May 1918.
  • Palavras-chave: EFG1914 / World War I / Humbert, Georges-Louis / Joffre, Joseph Jacques Cesaire / French Army, Engineers / French Army, [colonial troops] / French Army, [gunners] / United States Army & American Expeditionary Force / United States Army & [machine gunners] / delegations, French national - goodwill / supplies, French, storage [FA] - munitions / engineering, military, French / weapons, French - gun: 155mm howitzer & [United States] / operations, United States military - movement: march / ceremonies, French - event-related: investiture / weapons, French - gun: 320mm (railway mounted) / combat, French - artillery bombardment / 01/3(4-15).8 / France / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / Mont Plémont, France / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
  • Fornecedor: Imperial War Museums
  • Direitos: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Companhia produtora: Section Cinématographique de l'Armée Française
  • Cor: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Language: fr

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