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:
Specialty Film Import Ltd.
Description:
- Boys of the Old Brigade. Chelsea veterans reviewed by General Lyttleton on Foundation Day. Chelsea pensioners in their formal tricorn hats march out to be inspected by the elderly General Lyttleton who is in full dress uniform. Lyttleton talks with a few of the more frail pensioners who are sitting on benches with nurses nearby. The pensioners pass in review before General Lyttleton.
- King and Blind Knight. Investiture by King George V in the Quadrangle of Buckingham Palace. An elderly blind civilian is knighted. Soldiers, some of whom are wounded, march towards a dais to receive awards. Several nurses are also decorated for bravery.
- British Troops in Italy. Batteries on river Piave. Shot from boat as it passes barges camouflaged with reeds secured alongside the river's edge. A fast motor boat RE.15 overtakes the camera craft, its wake disturbing the tall reeds.
- Callous German Hospital Bomber. French capture Gotha with its crew. Captured Pfalz D.III parked in a cobbled square. French troops look on as five German prisoners wait by railway tracks before boarding a train.
- Hun Threat to Paris. British soldiers watch as refugees pass along a dirt road on farm wagons, bicycles, and on foot. A refugee column waits while a British convoy with a limbered 60-pounder passes.
- Legitimate River Trippers of Today. Convalescent British soldiers taking a pleasure cruise on the Thames, London, June 1918. The men board and are served tea by the women looking after them. Below decks the women serve a meal.
- Made in Germany. French troops guard an overturned German A.V. tank, Western Front, 8 May 1918. Close to Villers-Bretonneux the tank Elfriede, the victim of the first tank-to-tank engagment on 24 April, lies on its side with its track mechanism clearly visible.
- Prince of Wales in Italy. A view of the mountain area. The Prince walks with with his French escort through the snow-covered lower slopes of the area, hardly visible throough his heavy winter overcoat.
- More and More Americans. Heroes of Montididier who won undying fame in defence of Paris. US troops and guns on march in rear areas, Western Front, 1918.
- The Fight for the Woods. Cavalrymen, probably of 1st Cavalry Division, canter down the slope in columns of two and move through a wood.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- ALPS, ITALIAN
- ARMOURED VEHICLES
- BOATS
- BOMBERS
- DECORATIONS OF HONOUR
- ENGLAND
- FRANCE
- GOTHA
- ITALY
- LONDON
- MILITARY & NAVAL MEDALS
- REFUGEES
- VETERANS
- WAR VICTIMS
- WORLD WAR, 1914-1918
- EDWARD VIII, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN
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 for items 1-5 from Imperial War Museum Catalogue, Volume 1, NTB-354-01.
- 2. Description for item 6 from Imperial War Museum Catalogue, Volume 1, IWM 676b.
- 3. Description for items 7-10 from Imperial War Museum Catalogue, Volume 1, IWM 1061-02a.
- 4. Item titles are derived from captions.
- 5. Released in June 1918 in UK.
- 6. Head title reads: "British War Office Official News Film See it Every Week Sole Canadian Distributors - Specialty Film Imports Ltd." This title no longer appears on print or on nitrate in Ottawa.
- 7. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
