This short clip consists of a romantic scene in which a noble woman runs a horse drawn plough across the field. It is taken from a recruiting film for more women to help in the war effort. When the Great War started most people thought it would be a short war. It was soon clear that this...
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The film goes straight in to show women using heavy engineering machinery such as belt driven lathes. We see women on the production line assembling shells, which is clearly a complex and quite skilled process. The worker takes great care with the detonator just before weighing the shell. ...
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The clip starts with a title and sequence showing British tommies rescuing a fallen comrade who later died. We then see the famous shot of a soldier carrying his fallen comrade. The action then shifts to more shots of wounded on stretchers and making their way to a dressing station. The next titl...
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The clip comes from a compilation film of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in France, 1917-1918. In this segment we see women with their sleeves rolled up maintaining or repairing an engine. They may be a female ambulance crew (possibly 41st Auxiliary Ambulance Car Company at Rouen) who had to l...
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This clip starts with a title card explaining how heavy guns are destroying enemy defences. We then see artillery crews under camouflage preparing a large howitzer to be fired. Artillery was already the key weapon in modern warfare before the Great War. It had shown its power in the Ame...
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This short clip shows a large number of US troops eating their rations. They are wearing their ‘doughboy hats’. US troops fought alongside British empire and French forces in the latter stages of the war. The USA entered the war in April 1917 but when the war began, the US army was very...
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The clip starts with some pretty harrowing footage of a German trench devastated by artillery fire. We then see a pet dog killed in action and then more harrowing shots of British and German dead. We then see a burial party at work. This is followed by a brief glimpse of big guns and then soldier...
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The film starts with a tram being driven and conducted by women. The journey continues as the women driver prepares the tram and we then see the women conductor taking tickets on the top deck. When the Great War started most people thought it would be a short war. It was soon clear that...
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This clip gives us a detailed view of preparations for the attack at the Somme. We see vast ammunition dumps followed by busy scenes of trucks moving shells and other equipment and men busily loading and unloading vehicles. The final scene shows trench mortars (plum pudding bombs) being used. ...
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Henry talks about how his unit’s attack had been stopped and his mates decimated. He then explains how he waited until dark to get back to his lines. He crawled across no man's land, like many others. He crawled over bodies and his uniform was covered in blood and guts. He says that the number o...
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