[MESOPOTAMIA - INDIAN TROOPS BUILD A RAILWAY] [Allocated]
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Other title(s): [MESOPOTAMIA - INDIAN TROOPS BUILD A RAILWAY] [Allocated]
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Year: 1918
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Runtime: 5 mins
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Description: Flatcars carry the rails, sleepers and the troops themselves forward, as they build the line across the desert. The sappers wave and applaud for the camera. For the final shot the camera is mounted on the leading flatcar as it moves forward.
Short film of Indian sappers laying a railway line, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.
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Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / British Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force / Indian Army, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force / Indian Army, Indian Engineers / engineering, military, Indian: railway building / transport, Indian military - rail / 01/3(567) / Turkey & Mesopotamia / desert / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
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Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Production company: International Film Service
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Colour: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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