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Released by the British

Series

Series Name
War Office Official Topical Budget and Pictorial News

Issue

Issue No.
335-1
Date Released
23 Jan 1918
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1American Heroes of Cambrai
  2. 2Released by the British
  3. 3Discharged Service Men
  4. 4Ben Tillet at the Front
  5. 5Review by Moonlight

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 5
Summary
[SUBTITLE]: "Captured in 1914 Jules Copin escaped and has since been secreted by his wife in the attic of his own house on the Cambrai Front. During the whole of this time he was kept alive out of the meagre rations allowed his wife and feared betrayal by his 3 year old child, as German officers were billeted in the house." Jules Copin and his wife and child with others in French town. Close-up of Copin and his wife who point out the camera to the child.
Credits:
Camera
John Benjamin McDowell
Length of story (in feet)
57

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive
Email
film@iwm.org.uk
Web
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film
Phone
020 7416 5291
Fax
020 7416 5379
Address
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
Notes
The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.
Series held
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Name
British Film Institute (BFI)
Email
For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk
Web
http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web
Phone
020 7255 1444
Fax
020 7580 7503
Address
21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN
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).
Series held
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