Mountain Guns

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

200-1

Date Released

23 Jun 1915

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Ready for the Call
2. 2The Country Fair
3. 3Bluejackets Recruit
4. 4The Tattered Colours
5. 5Mountain Guns

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "The 75 mm mountain gun using smokeless powder and discharging shrapnel. This light artillery is used by the Serbians." A man (British?) demonstrates gun a number of times to Serbian officers, who put fingers in their ears, then look to see where it has fired.

Keywords

Weapons; Military

Length of story (in feet)

41

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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