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1918 Italy - Military Activities in Mountains R1 220930-11 | Footage Farm

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[WWI - 1918 ca, Italy:  Military Activity in Italian Mountains]
Intertitle.
POV descending on Teleferica cableway over trees, mountain trails & rocky hillside.  Italian soldiers looking up from camp dug under rocks & boulders.  WW1 alpine dugouts near Monte Tomba w/ views of steep cliffs & valley below.  Troops in small encampments on ridge & some built into rock face.  Aerial of river valley.
20:16:41  Flash intertitle re women clearing mountain roads of snow.  POV past women shoveling along road.    20:16:55  Troops clearing deep snow / avalanche, Red Cross ambulance drives past.  
20:17:21  Title re troops digging after avalanche.  LS of troops & horses to base of slide.  
20:17:43  Troops, some on snow shoes up trail past camera  & along ridge pulling machine guns.
20:18:13  Summertime.  Column of troops advance on horse carts, motorcycle & sidecar & trucks. 
20:18:36  Soldiers push out large railroad guns; set up, load & fire at Austrian lines.  Explosions.  GOOD.
20:19:52  Title:  The Guardian of the Alps.  Troops in mountainside dugout / emplacement; set up artillery on mountainside.
20:21:22  Title:  re trucks as rapid transport.  MS convoy / column of trucks & armored vehicles up mountain road; past orchard.  Mule teams w/ headily loaded wagons past soldiers.  GOOD.  
20:22:53  Pack mules cross floating plank bridge; aquaduct / viaduct / rail bridge visible in distance.
20:23:14  Title:  re needing mules in mountains.  MCU pack mules being led past camera on rocky hillside; mountain village in background.  Along muddy mountain road.
20:24:47  Title:  re dogs needed on snowy heights.  Dogs w/ packs loaded w/ ammunition to carry across mountains.
20:25:20  Title:  re dam construction to allow for a bridge to be built. High Angles / HA  Italian troops building dam across river w/ timbers, sandbagged & stones.
20:26:36  Title:  The camouflaged pontoons are laboriously dragged over a mountain.  Lines of soldiers w/ ropes pulling & others pushing large pontoon passed, sliding on logs down hillside to river.  
20:27:20  Troops in pontoon on river.  Soldiers carry planks for roadway on nearly completed bridge.
20;27:44  Title:  The completed bridge.  HA w/ some soldiers walking across
20:28:06  LS of mountain cliff face w/ barbed wire in snow along upper edge on Italian Alpine border.
20:28:20  MS soldiers in wooden mountain hideaway in cleft in cliff.  Work party leaving.  VERY GOOD
20:28:49  Title:  Aiding The Wounded.  On the Balkan Front Red Cross units are forced to use primitive transportation methods.  Column of medics w/ stretchers on poles dragged / pulled by horses.  Others suspended from poles between mules.  Red Cross horse drawn ambulance wagon past camera.
WW1; Logistics; Construction; Fighting; 
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