Time To Remember The Better ole 1916 Reel 2 (1916)
Pathe have rights to clips in Time to Remember programmes but not to commentary or whole programme as screened. Reel 2. 01:08:49 Sequence of artillery fire. (Voice over suggests this is near Verdun. ) 01:09:07 French troops marching, in battlefield landscape. French troops lined up and putting on gas masks. Nuns at school secure children s gas masks. (Preparations for attack on Verdun apparently). Large railway mounted artillery firing. Artillery gun recoils after firing shell. Explosion. Young children running into shelter at school. As they run they are fastening their gas masks. 01:10:13 Large shell lifted into place. Massive railway mounted gun raises barrel. It fires a shell. Another gun fires. 01:10:22 Marshall Petain inspecting French troops. C, U Petain. 01:10:37 German naval warships. The German ensign is flying. German ship moving along large canal. Sailor signals message using semaphore flags. His colleague looks through binoculars. British warships at sea. Interior of ship. M
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