[CANADIAN TANKS] [Allocated]
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Autre(s) titre(s): [CANADIAN TANKS] [Allocated]
[BATTLE OF THE ANCRE AND THE ADVANCE OF THE TANKS (Canadian version extracts ?)] [related]
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Année: 1917
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Durée: 12 mins
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Description: An unarmed Mark IV Male crushes barbed wire as soldiers mark its progress. An unarmed Mark IV Female comes up to the camera. Tank crews perform maintenance on "HMLS Daphne" (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). Mark IV tanks are repaired in the open at a tank base. Mark IV tanks move up a road near a battle zone. A wireless tank used as an observation post during the First Battle of Cambrai. "HMLS Oh I Say" (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). A training attack by a Mark IV Male with supporting troops advancing through smoke (note houses in background) and firing a blank shot from one of its 6-pounder guns. More of Mark I tanks (from IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE). A Canadian officer poses with his tank, which has a Maple Leaf drawn on its nose.
Fragment of a Canadian film on tanks on the Western Front, 1916-1917.
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Mots-clés: EFG1914 / World War I / Canadian Army, Canadian Expeditionary Force / British Army, Machine Gun Corps, Heavy Section, Tank Corps / combat [simulated], British - tank / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark I / armour, British - tank: Tank Mark IV / operations, British military - maintenance / 01/3(4-15).57 [1916 Flers-Courcelette] / 01/3(4-15).76 / Somme, France / Cambrai, Nord, France
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Fournisseur: Imperial War Museums
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Droits: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Société de production: Topical Film Company
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Couleur: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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