Time To Remember - Over By Christmas 1914 - Record G - Reel 2 (1914)

Pathe have rights to clips in Time to Remember programmes but not to commentary or whole programme as screened. Reel 2. Continued. 01:19:36 German troops marching in country lanes. Various shots of German army on the advance. 01:19:53 French taxis being used as troop transport. C/U soldiers in taxi. 01:20:02 Horse drawn artillery advancing rapidly across field. Pontoon bridge under construction in river in France. Good shots of French army engineers at work. End of Neg Reel 01:20:41 General Joffre walks along platform at Compiegne railway station. Lord Kitchener and other British officers arrive at station to be greeted by Joffre. Kitchener and Joffre in trench. They look through binoculars. 01:21:10 Close fighting at the Marne River. French troops firing rifles across river. German Prisoners of War march along French roads. French troops on horseback. French and other allied infantry going forward. British Expeditionary Force (BEF) troops coming back from battle of Mons. British troops digging trenches (some of them are dressed in civvies and so this footage may actually be training of troops in England). Troops run into trenches and take up positions with rifles. Troops lay out barbed wire. Troops carry duck boards into trenches. 01:22:26 Crowds in Hyde Park, London. People are riding horses. 01:22:34 Snow covered streets in Russia. (Voice over suggests this is Petrograd.) People clean snow from streets. Russian Cossack horsemen ride through snowy landscape. Continued. 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 website.
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