Wooden Guns (1917)

Wooden guns. World War One. French troops capture wooden guns on the Somme. It is not clear if they are actually real guns made of wood or if they are fake guns; put there by the Germans to confuse the Allies; or to make it seem that they had greater fire power than they actually did. The French soldier walks around the wooden gun; looks into it; walks around it some more; examining it. (G 413 B) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé