Landships II

Rhomboid · Field Marshal

NFB films

Mark Hansen · Legend

Rhomboid wrote:

The National Film Board of Canada (www.nfb.ca) has a few hundred minutes of footage related to the Canadian Corps in WW1 available on-line. It can be found in the Educational Resources section of the site, in a feature entitled "Images of a Forgotten War". Of particular interest is a short film "Canadians Advance near Cambrai 2" in the wartime/battles subsection of "Images..". There is some nice footage of gun carriers, a crane-equipped tank, Austin AC's, Mk.IV supply tanks and MK.V hermaphrodites. "Canadians Advance...1" has some light railway footage.

Not just Mk V hermaphrodites but an indisputable Mk V* hermaphrodite as well!!! WD 9806 "Ajax" is carrying a port female sponson and starboard male sponson. Brilliant find there Rhomboid!!!!

P.S.: If I'm not mistaken, the first tank in that group three is also a Mk V* hermaphrodite. In that clip the Mk V*'s appear to be wearing the wider tracks while the Mk V has the narrow tracks.

P.P.S.: I'm not mistaken. The first tank with unknown WD number "Happy Days" is a Mk V* and a hermaphrodite to boot.

-- Edited by Mark Hansen at 00:17, 2006-10-20

-- Edited by Mark Hansen at 00:20, 2006-10-20

Centurion · Legend

How do you view the clips?Do you need to register first?

Mark Hansen · Legend

I just followed Rhomboids instructions and it worked fine. In the preferences I chose Media Player but I don't see that it wouldn't work if you used any of the other choices.

Centurion · Legend

I find a film and get the enclosed image. If I clik on an NFB symbol something happens, the computer slows waaay down but I cant see anything!

photoart · Corporal

I navigated to the films via an alternate route as follows:

Go to the mail page

http://www.nfb.ca/enclasse/index.php?v=h&lg=en

see http://www.photoart.plus.com/Landships/1.jpg

Then click images of a forgotten war

which should open the following page

http://www.photoart.plus.com/Landships/2.jpg

Click continue, you should be asked to see your preferences for the video see below

http://www.photoart.plus.com/Landships/3.jpg

once set using submit you should see the following

http://www.photoart.plus.com/Landships/4.jpg (different movie will be shown).

Select WARTIME, then BATTLES small movie icons will be shown, the Cambrai movies are on the right (you will need to scroll the movie icons using your mouse).

Click the icon and hopefully the movie will be shown. Hope this helps

Regards

Andrew

Roger Todd · Legend

Fantastic! Thanks Rhomboid and Andrew for finding that site and advising how to use it. There's some magnificent footage there.

Mark Hansen · Legend

Andrew, how did you capture the screen shots with the movie image? Every time I try, the rest of the screen captures ok but the movie area comes back with a black square.

P.S.: Don't worry about it; I found the answer on a quick Google. Start up Media Player on another file and then view the video you want to capture screen shots from.

-- Edited by Mark Hansen at 22:55, 2006-10-21

Mark Hansen · Legend

For anybody having trouble viewing the clips, I've stitched together a sequence of frames showing the two Mk V* hermaphrodites "Ajax" and "Happy Days".