Battle of the Somme: the making of the 1916 propaganda filmDowning, TaylorHistorian (02651076)
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Battle Begins - July 1, 1916 Battle of the Somme Prior to the attack, the Allies launched a week-long heavy artillery bombardment, using some 1.75 million shells, which aimed to cut the barbed wire guarding German’s trench defenses and destroy the enemy’s positions. ...
The Battle of the Somme, fought in the summer and autumn of 1916, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. With more than one million casualties, it was also one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The Allied forces attempted to break through the German lines along...
1997. Cinema, Spectatorship and Propaganda: Battle of the Somme (1916) and its Contemporary Audience. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television vol. 17, no. 1: 5-28.Reeves, Nicholas, `Cinema, Spectatorship and Propaganda: Battle of the Somme (1916) and Its Contemporary Audience', in...
Heavy artillery included the French 75mm gun and Germany’s devastating 420mm howitzer, which was nicknamed “Big Bertha.” British troops during the Battle of the Somme, September 1916. A British soldier gazes out of a dug-out as the body of a dead German soldier lies nearby. British ...
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Much has been written about the Battle of the Somme. From July through late November 1916, British, French, and German armies fought one of the costliest battles of the 20th century. Well over a million casualties and only a few miles of ground gained by the Allies were the result when ...
During the war itself, opinion was strongly influenced by a film made for the propaganda arm of the British war effort: The Battle of the Somme (1916), which managed to elicit quite varying reactions. The violence of war had never before been brought into focus so sharply, yet the ...
His basic competence and youthful enthusiasm for the job had seen him promoted to LT, and by early 1916 he was posted as exec of the Narborough. Initially part of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow he had found the lack of action, not to mention the freezing cold, incre...