Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Animals at War
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Animals at War. DESCRIPTION: In training in Virginia are fighting dogs known as the K9 Corps. In the forests of Assam the elephants work at moving large pieces of timber. SHOTLIST: Dogs at Front Royal, Va being led through smoke screen, by sailors. Several dogs chained bark & bite at sailors as they tease them with various things, including flaming sticks. Two fight by car, the "enemy" knocks opponent down, jumps into car, trained dog runs up, jumps into car, tussles with "enemy" who jumps out of car, GS of him laying on ground guarded by dog. This is at the Barracks of Uncle Sam’s famous K9 Corps. Elephants in forest in Burma [sic], pulling, pushing, with their tusks, great tree trunks. Elephants push trunks onto lorries. Elephants hauling & pushing artillery up steep incline. Baby elephant stand by its mother.
- Keywords
- Education and training; Vehicles; Environment; Weapons; Navy; Animals; Military
- Locations
- Front Royal; Assam
- Footage sources
- United States of America
Pathe
- Card file number
- 44350
- Credits:
-
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 124
-
Film clip
• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- AP Archive
- info@aparchive.com
- Web
- http://www.movietone.com
- Phone
- +44 (0)20 7482 7482
- Series held
- View all series held by AP Archive
Record Stats
This record has been viewed 58 times.
