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Scenes from British movie about Battle of Somme in World War I.

Excerpts from British movie about trench warfare in World War One. Explosions occur and columns of smoke rise. British and French soldiers run across no man's land battlefield towards Montaubon. Glimpse of German troops in trench. German machine gun firing from fortified position. German troops retreating from trenches and firing back at advancing allied troops. British troops entering German trenches and chasing retreating German troops in the trenches. German troops fleeing. French soldiers crossing "no man's land" battlefield while under fire. British troops using horses to reposition and move field artillery pieces.

Date: 1916
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066050
Austro-Hungarian troops depart on troop train from railroad station during World War I

Friends and relatives jam a railroad station platform,as they wave goodbye to Austro-Hungarian troops departing on a troop train for the Italian front during World War 1. The troops wave back. Officers, dignitaries (including several women) and a military brass band, give the troops a sendoff. The last cars of the train carry visible war materiel, such as caissons, and other items that are hidden from view.

Date: 1915
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066052
British soldiers move supplies through deep mud, and advance across non man's land during World War I

British soldiers moving horses and supplies through thick mud during the First World War. A soldier with his face covered with mud. A shell bursts showering British soldiers with shrapnel, as they hunker down in the mud at night. In daytime scene British infantry advances across no man's land as the unit piper plays bagpipes and marches along crest of hill in World War 1. (Slate states Piper Richardson was killed later that day and was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry.) Scenes are from a British film released post-war.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066066
French woman test pilot, Jacqueline Auriol, regains title of world's fastest woman flier, piloting a French Mystere IV N jet

French woman test pilot, Jacqueline Auriol, gets into the cockpit of a French Dassault Mystere IV N jet fighter. She dons helmet and straps herself in. Aircraft taxis and takes off from runway. Personnel in the control room speaks over radio. Technician looks through a scope designed to observe speed. Group of French observers watch the aircraft in flight. The aircraft lands, taxis and parks on the ramp. Woman pilot Jacqueline Auriol climbs down from the aircraft smiling, for she has just regained the woman's world aviation speed record.

Date: 1955, May 31
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044035
French forces and war scenes of World War I.

French troops marching. Convoy of French Army vehicles. Formation of aircraft bombing ground targets. Explosions on ground. The Eiffel Tower.

Date: 1914
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044083
British troops in trenches don gas masks after hearing a warning by a Strombos horn on the Western Front in World War I

British troops in deep trenches lined with woven branches, on the Western Front in World War 1. Slate refers to gas alarm with Strombos horn. British soldiers immediately don their gas masks and take up defensive firing positions in their trench. Gas fumes are seen drifting over the trench. View from the trench, of gas cloud over No-Man's land, with barbed wire and some snow on the ground. [Note: The Strombos horn,was operated by compressed air and could be heard for several miles. But as use of gas shells increased, and such attacks tended to be localized, other alarms were employed, instead, such as metal shell cases, steel triangles, watchmen's rattles, klaxon horns, etc.] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1916
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044425