World War 1: It’Ll All Be over by Christmas

Synopsis: Documentary about the build-up from 1900 to the outbreak of war in 1914 and the hopeful first months to Christmas. We see early action and images, and rare archive film of Belgian refugees in Newcastle-under-Lyme, November 1914, after the fall of Belgium. We see how people coped on the Home Front, and see film of women workers in factories and on the land. We commemorate the 1914 Christmas Truce, when the common soldiers on both sides stopped the war for two days, in a special re-enactment. We conclude this sequence in winter, early 1915, when jingoistic optimism has now been replaced with resignation to the stalled entrenchment of armies which was to typify the rest of the war.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Subjects: Social Studies; History
Keywords: film archives; local history; World War 1; 1910s

Name: Staffordshire Film Archive
Contact: Ray Johnson MBE
Email: ray.johnson@filmarchive.org.uk
Web: http://www.filmarchive.org.uk/index.html External site opens in new window
Phone: 07774 482414
Address: Ray Johnson Productions
P.O. Box 777
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 8QA
United Kingdom

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