Munitions Transport AKA The Wonderful Lines (1916)

France. World War One. Military transportation. Munitions transport in France; near the Somme. Opens with shot of guys in coats; helmets; stacked up bombshells; with trucks parked in BG; the men are carrying the shells back to trucks. Then; a shot of a road: 3 horses (with riders) pulling a cart go by to left; pan to right on soldiers standing by road next to truck; another truck drives past; long row of horse-drawn wagons; pan to boxes stacked at side of road. (This footage & more in longer story; ’French counteroffensive’) FILM ID:1852.5 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