Mercy! Kamerade!

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

256-2

Date Released

22 Jul 1916

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1US Troops in Training
2. 2Pageant in Paris
3. 3Troops of the Allies
4. 4Cavalry in Action
5. 5Mercy! Kamerade!

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Some of our ‘Tommies’ practising with the bayonet. The sight of cold steel drives terror into the heart of the German and compels him to yell for mercy." Soldiers rush at sacks hanging from ropes and stab them with the bayonets at the end of their guns. Also stab sacks lying on the ground and placed in trenches. At a signal from a man hidden behind a tree, a number of men rise up out of hiding and charge towards the camera, some falling down ‘dead’ in the process.

Keywords

Weapons; Military

Length of story (in feet)

60

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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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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