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James H


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This photo taken on the set of Westfront 1918, showing the replica "Renaults". It appears to be from the Bundesarchiv. Maybe there's some more stuff there.

-- Edited by James H on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 12:11:06 PM

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Sort of remainds me of the odd replicas used in "Lion of the Desert".

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It's just occurred to me that newer participants might not be aware of the story (or, as people have quite unnecessarily started saying recently, the "back story") of these contrivances.

For some time, pictures in circulation had led to the belief that these were some form of real prototype Schneider. I had the good fortune to discover what they actually were; film props from 1930.

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=63528&p=3&topicID=11790565

They can be seen in this excerpt from the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQOO6V8TI6g

-- Edited by James H on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 10:49:15 PM

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thank you, James, for explaining this! i had no idea...

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You're welcome. John. My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I first saw the film.

The photo of Rodolphe Ernst-Metzmaier is from an old French-produced History Channel documentary about the Renault FT - and the German replicas even crop up briefly in that, so they might have fooled the French as well. In fact, the Tanks from Westfront 1918 and Stoßtrupp 1917 appear in lots of film documentaries; the Tommies and Poilus are German "extras".

Understandable, perhaps, because the battle scenes are more illustrative than the available film of the War itself, but I suspect that in many cases the film-makers don't know they're not genuine.

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Hughbearson wrote:

Sort of remainds me of the odd replicas used in "Lion of the Desert".



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Hi Hugh thats what it is, there are several others from the film there too including mockup armoured carswink

 

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Could the mockup armoured car be the metal construction in a similar state next to it???

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I believe the armoured cars etc are too the right the pic comes from a tourist who mistakenly decribed it as a British tank... there are several threads which have more...

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=63528&p=3&topicID=37088749


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