Fonds/collection:
DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Remarks:
- 1. Material was received from Dawson City in 2 shipments - 506 reels in 1978 and 26 reels in 1980. Of these 389 reels, primarily of American fiction, were transferred to Library of Congress for conversion. Reference copies of some of these reels were returned to NFTSA.
Accession number:
1979-0191
Series title:
British War Office Official News Film
Production company:
- Re-edited version for release outside Britain of items from the series PICTORIAL NEWS (OFFICIAL)
- Topical Film Company Ltd.
Sponsor:
- British Ministry of Information
Country of production:
cn
Name of distributor:
Independent Film Supply Co.
Description:
- Rhondda Opens the Kitchen. Lord Rhondda opens a communal kitchen at Silvertown, West Ham, London, 3 January 1918. Lord Rhondda, the Minister of Food, arrives by car. With him is the Mayor of West Ham, Mr. Will Thorne, MP. A crowd of men, women and children queue with jugs at the kitchen windows to have soup dispensed to them by female workers. There are separate windows for men and women. The children stand with their jugs of soup. Mr. Thorne and Lord Rhondda watch.
- The Day of Intercession Service. Crowds leave St. Paul's Cathedral, London, after a service, Sunday 6 January 1918.
- Back From the Prison Camps. Repatriated British prisoners of war arrive in Boston, Lincolnshire, January 1918. The hospital ship is docked in Boston harbour, and the men, all with some physical disability, pose for the camera on board. They make their way onto the dock, saying goodbye to the nurses as they do so. A group of them are described as "Old Contemptibles" of the 1914 British Expeditionary Force, who have been in captivity for three years. The ship steams out of the harbour with the nurses waving. The local mayor is among those waiting to greet the soldiers.
- Winter Campaigning. A battalion of Chasseurs stand on parade somewhere in the Vosges mountains and present their colours. Soldiers are shown marching as snow falls heavily.
- British Detraining in Italy. A train arrives and British soldiers step out, form up, and move their equipment about.
- The Women's Legion. Women work in a hangar assembling aircraft in Britain, January 1918. Some of the women are in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). A group of them wheels out the fuselage of a BE2 as a male soldier supervises. Outside the hanger, other women make final checks on a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, tightening the wires. The engine cowling is also checked. The women hold the aircraft's tail after the engine is started to enable it to build up power.
- America's Quick Training. US troops (called "Sammies" in the caption) marching in formation near a tent encampment.
- In Pursuit of the Turks. Freeze frame of a blown-up bridge span. The bridge spanning the Wadi Hesi was destroyed by retreating Turkish troops. <5mn>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- AIRPLANE FACTORIES
- ARMED FORCES
- ENGLAND
- FOOD RELIEF
- FRANCE
- PRISONERS OF WAR
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES
- WAR WORK
- WOMEN
- WORLD WAR, 1914-1918
- RHONDDA, DAVID A.
- THORNE, WILL
Copyright Status:
Copyright expired.
Restrictions on Consultation:
~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Donor Restrictions:
Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.
Notes:
- 1. Description of first 3 items from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 692a. Description for item 6 is from IWM 692b.
- 2. Captions end with legend "War Office Topical Budget".
- 3. Item titles are derived from the captions.
- 4. Released January 1918 in Britain.
- 5. Title card originally read: BRITISH WAR OFFICE OFFICIAL NEWS FILM/Sole Canadian Distributors: Independent Film Supply Co., Montreal, Toronto, St. John, Winnipeg, Vancouver. This title no longer exists on elements, or on original nitrate.
- 6. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
