British Trench Digging

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

249-1

Date Released

31 May 1916

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Children of the Empire
2. 2Oak Apple Day
3. 3Drum Head Service
4. 4City of London Cadets
5. 5British Trench Digging

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "An entrenching party leaving the Camp and moving out through communication trenches to the front line. Building up breastworks and parapets." Men marching along path cut into bare hillside. Men carrying spades and walking along low trench. Rear view as they walk down a higher trench made of sandbags. View from inside trench room as men pass by carrying sandbags.

Keywords

Military

Length of story (in feet)

61

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Film Archive

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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