The First World War - PT4
Clip: 538149_1_5
Year Shot: 1914
(Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1156
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Europe
Timecode: 01:17:40 - 01:18:23
France, Western Front, Battle/Combat, Mobilization: Great MSs French Army soldiers wearing kepi hats in trenches, barbed wire posts in one shot. TLSs French soldiers cleaning rifles in trench. CU French poster announcing that the Government has left Paris, signed by Gallieni, the Military Governor of Paris, and dated 3rd September 1914. Good TLSs "Taxis of the Marne" -- long line of taxi cabs carrying soldiers driving down street, some waving to civilians. (General Gallieni had commandeered Paris taxicabs & private cars to take reserves to the front in the Battle of the Marne.)