Barrage Fire

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

284-2

Date Released

3 Feb 1917

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Barrage Fire
2. 2President Wilson
3. 3Recruits for the Tanks
4. 4Sport on the Ice
5. 5Wedding of Surbiton’s VC

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 5

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "Owing to its wonderful accuracy and rapidity of fire the French 75 mm gun is extreamely [sic] useful for ‘barrage fire’ in preventing trench raids." Rear view of French troops loading and firing a 75mm gun from beneath a wooden shelter. Shells explode in the distance on grassland.

Keywords

Weapons; Military

Length of story (in feet)

52

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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