WITH GERMANY'S ALLY [Main]

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Year: 1915
Runtime: 5 mins
Description: The film starts with three ships from the fleet: first the four-funnelled cruiser Midilli, formerly SMS Breslau, riding at anchor, then a Muvanet-i-Milet Class destroyer showing the Turkish flag at her stern, then a Samsoun Class destroyer. The camera-ship travels around the three warships, filming them at various angles. Then Sultan Mohammed V is shown being taken in his royal barge across the Hellespont; he meets with ministers from Bulgaria and Persia (backs to camera) at a pavilion. Enver Pasha is visible in the background. Turkish troops in the streets hold up banners, "celebrating a victory". The crowd, mainly civilian, is addressed by a speaker from a rostrum.
Incomplete film of the Turkish Black Sea Fleet and scenes in Constantinople, probably 1915.
Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Mohammed V, Sultan of Turkey / Enver Pasha / German Imperial Navy, Breslau / Ottoman Navy, Black Sea Fleet / Ottoman Navy, Midilli / ships, German naval - cruiser: Breslau & [Turkish] / ships, Turkish naval - cruiser: Midilli / ships, Turkish naval - destroyer: Muvanet-i-Milet Class / ships, Turkish naval - destroyer: Samsoun Class / delegations, Bulgarian international - political / delegations, Persian international - political / celebrations, Turkish - event-related / 31/3(560) / Turkey & Constantinople
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
Colour: Black & White
Sound: Without sound
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