Blessing the Shells

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

278-2

Date Released

23 Dec 1916

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Blessing the Shells
2. 2Official Belgian Film. Belgian Soldiers’ Pillow Fight
3. 3Official Belgian Film New War Game
4. 4Christmas Cattle
5. 5Turkeys for HMS Lion

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "A French Priest blesses the shells as they are loaded into the famous ‘seventy-five’ guns used by the French Artillery." Priest, with one eye to the camera, pronounces a blessing on each shell as it is loaded and fired from a gun. Priest and soldiers all make the sign of the cross.

Keywords

Weapons; Military; Religion and belief

Length of story (in feet)

66

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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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