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françois vauvillier


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Breaking news.

Just go to :

http://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Internet/ARemplir/parcours/EFG1914/pages_FR/215638.html

and then you can die in peace.

 

Full credit for revealing this astonishing discovery to French Author and researcher Guy François, contributor to GBM Magazine.

More details (in French) on :

http://www.atf40.fr/

Section : Matériels roulants / Chars et automitrailleuses anciens

 

Kind regards to everybody

François Vauvillier, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief GBM quarterly

http://blindes-materiel.histoireetcollections.com/



-- Edited by françois vauvillier on Saturday 30th of November 2013 11:54:17 PM



-- Edited by françois vauvillier on Saturday 30th of November 2013 11:55:20 PM

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That is FANTASTIC! So many thanks! Or, rather, MERCI BEAUCOUP x 1000!

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Thank you.

As well as the FCM 1A there's also 19mins of the Renault 75mm SPG and 5 mins of the A7V Elfriede under test.

A7V Elfriede

Renault 75mm SPG

I've embedded the Renault SPG clip in the Landships II article. I think the A7V article needs a rewrite (sigh) - on the list.

Regards,

Charlie



-- Edited by CharlieC on Sunday 1st of December 2013 01:42:04 AM

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Excellent, Thanks All...

 

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Anyone know who the (attached) is - he appears in the film clips of the Renault SPGs and the A7V Elfriede.

He seems to be quite important - the army officers seem deferential around him.

Regards,

Charlie



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CharlieC wrote:

 

Anyone know who the (attached) is - he appears in the film clips of the Renault SPGs and the A7V Elfriede.


 Jules-Louis Breton, French undersecretary of state for inventions relevant to the war effort.



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Thanks MZ.

Regards,

Charlie



-- Edited by CharlieC on Sunday 1st of December 2013 01:24:50 PM

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Of course.

This man is Jules-Louis Breton, député (congressman), under-secretary of State for Inventions, etc. He was the political Head of all French research for new weaponry during WWI. 

He also claimed  - unduly - to be the inventor of the tanks in France, arguing with General Estienne about this matter, juste after WWI.

In two recent issues of GBM quarterly magazine (# 104 and 105), we have published a very important article in two parts, about the birth of French tanks, establishing the foremost role played by three men who have not received the fame they deserved : MM Quellennec father and son, and Charles Fouché (later second lieutenant in the AS, the French Tank Branch).They can be seen as the real inventors of the " tank" in France, conceived as a MG-armed, armored full track tractor. And Fouché decisively took part in the realization of the firt French tank ever built.

Details here :

http://blindes-materiel.histoireetcollections.com/publication/3054/blindes-materiel-104-avril-2013.html

http://blindes-materiel.histoireetcollections.com/publication/3110/blindes-materiel-105-juillet-2013.html

Cordialement à tous

François

 



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Does anyone know how to download all the videos?



-- Edited by elbavaro on Sunday 1st of December 2013 09:47:43 PM

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Wow! What a find. Thanks for posting.

Gwyn

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I've managed to get some cracking screengrabs...

I love how when they first drive the tank through the woods, a small boy skips across the scene, pausing briefly to look at the camera with a "Who, me?" expression before legging it out of shot! Presumably these were at the very least private tests of a new weapon yet there are all sorts of workmen hanging around, a few women and at least one child (and a dog)! I can't imagine that happening these days in a secret weapons test...



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Wow, great, just fantastic!



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elbavaro


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May I ask again: Does anyone know how to download all the videos?

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The video streams are a Flash movie (.flv) so it isn't a one step process:

On a Mac - fire up Safari, load the page with the video, go <control><option>A, you'll get an activity screen with all the page components, find the stream, it will be the largest sized item,

double click, Safari will save it as a .flv file.

On PCs you'll need a video stream download extension for Firefox, there are heaps of them, download as a .flv file.

With the .flv file we'll need a convertor to turn it into something useful like a .mp4 - there are lots of FLVtoMP4 convertors around, the one I use is called "Miro Video Convertor" - free and

just does the conversion.

.mp4s can be played in most players like DivX, VLC, Quicktime(Mac) - don't know about Windows Media Player.

Regards,

Charlie

 



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Hi Charlie!

Thx a lot. I will try that.

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I use Firefox's add-on Download Helper 4.9.21. Works a treat. I think you can set it to automatically convert the flv file into another format but I didn't bother as I have loads of video conversion applications and will use one of those. As it is, vlc happily plays flv files anyway.

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I'm still getting over this. This is what Howard Carter must have felt like. Everything about it is astonishing. Several shots of Gen. Estienne, too. Merci mille fois, François.

That site leads off in many directions and to a great deal of delightful footage.

A couple of things I noticed:

Mitrailleuse contre tanks  http://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Internet/ARemplir/parcours/EFG1914/pages_FR/43850.html features demonstrations of anti-tank weapons, but no tanks in the clip.


[Le Tank du lieutenant Breton]  features not a tank, but a gun fitted with some kind of pedrail type wheel.

Also found a clip that I can't find again, of what the title says is a 37mm being tested by being fired at various objects and into trenches and so on, but it looks very much like a Schneider BS to me.



-- Edited by James H on Monday 2nd of December 2013 05:13:23 PM

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If you go to the main European Film Gateway page it's even more mindboggling!

http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/about_efg/EFG1914collections

Here, for example, is the efg1914 bundesarchiv on which we find a 12-minute film of giant Zeppelin Staaken bombers being prepared and flown!

http://www.filmportal.de/video/riesenflugzeuge-der-zeppelin-werke-in-berlin-staaken-bei-spandau

I am, quite frankly, gobsmacked!

God alone knows what else I'm going to find, I suspect I'm going to lose myself on this site for hours, days, weeks...



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The IWM is participating in the project:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060000180 - 15 minutes of Medium Mark C trials - the sound track should have been Flanders & Swan's Hippopotamus song.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060000189 - exercises at Bovington - Whippet, Mark V and V*

There are a number of other clips flagged but not yet in place - I guess we just have to watch this space.

Regards,

Charlie

 



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James H wrote:

Also found a clip that I can't find again, of what the title says is a 37mm being tested by being fired at various objects and into trenches and so on, but it looks very much like a Schneider BS to me.



-- Edited by James H on Monday 2nd of December 2013 05:13:23 PM

It's in the clip of the testing of A7V Elfriede - from 4:00 mins onwards. I agree, the gun looks like a Blockhaus Schneider.
Regards,
Charlie

 



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Ta, Charlie. Short-term memory in serious condition.

I wonder if they're interested in minor corrections such as that?



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