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1916, France: Fighting; Verdun 220743-02 | Footage Farm

2,605 views · Published 3 June 2012 · 10:48 · Indexed 27 September 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2012 · Film & Animation

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Large guns under tarpaulins fired l. to r. from rocky hillside as men cover ears.  Brief shot of railroad gun mounted on train firing at village.  High Angle / HA French infantry on narrow street thru ruined houses / buildings on both side of Verdun town.
02:08:23  Intertitle.  HA troops up hillside past waterfilled bomb craters in no man's land.  Men resting in mud of bomb craters in heavy rain; medics w/ stretchers past; soldiers past.  Man stuck in mud.
02:08:48  Intertitle.  Pan of men resting w/ smoke & explosions beyond.  Men crouched in trenches.  Out of trenches & advancing w/ packs & rifles in rain.  Pans of barren countryside w/ smoke from explosions or ?? drifting across.  View of trench line running up opposite hill.  Good explosions.
02:11:22  Intertitle.  Group of German prisoners of war following wounded carried on stretcher across craters & small stones, pass French moving up in trench.
02:11:48  Intertitle.  HA of German troops across valley gathering, climbing up towards camera as French troops in trench move away from camera. 
02:12:41  Intertitle re “Ordre Du Jour”.  Chauffour Woods? & Dame Ravine.  Pan devastated hillside of stumps, rocks & fallen timber w/ troops moving across.  Troops in trench; destroyed German equipment & smoking ?? on steep hillside.  French hurry past remains of tanks.
02:14:10  Intertitle.  Wreckage of dug in German command post.  Captured German troops march along road in rain past camera.
02:14:42  Intertitle.  Pan POW / prisoners of war camp; food distributed - bread & tin cans handed out in front of camera.
02:16:09  Intertitle.  Officers pose & board trucks to rear. 
02:16:36  MCU French General Charles Mangin; MLS Gen. Robert Nivelle & General Petain review French troops after Verdun victory & give awards.  Pan line of officers w/ raised swords.  MS Petain pinning medals, gives kisses, taps sword on shoulders.
02:17:48  Intertitle.  Troops march past w/ units & carrying flags,  Nivelle & Petain saluting.  The End.
Victory; Battle of Verdun; Medals; Devastation; Horrors of War; WW1;
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