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Hi dont know if anyones posted this before, Great site with tons of films from the front + pics


main page:


http://www.nfb.ca/enclasse/ww1/en/autresindex.php?act=images&id=593893


in the archive:


http://www.nfb.ca/enclasse/ww1/en/frame_search.php?id=593893&act=images


click on films look for "Salvage Work on the Canadian Front" lots of german gear : take a look you wont regret it....Hope the link works....Cheers



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Great tip, thanks. Will link to it!

In the clip you mentioned you can see guns and mortars of every conceivable type and make. Remarkable! I guess that this film was taken post-august 8, and really shows what a beating the German Army took that day.

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There is some amazing stuff in there. As the camera panned I noticed what appear to be at least one French artillery piece, resumably captured by the Germans and re captured by the Canadians. Also some fairly old 19th century pieces amongst the more modern guns (I'm sure I saw an early Armstrong breechloader pre recoil mechanisms). This suggests a degree of desperation on the German side in late 1918 so that if it can still fire it gets used. I wish there were a way to freeze the film when one wanted to so one could look at a particular item of interest. For example there was something with a series of words including Tank writen on it but it went past too quickly. Any one know if freezing is possible?

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What a fantastic site. Pleasant change from the same old IWM footage that gets wheeled out for every documentary. Some of the men are still wearing the Gorblimey, which I was surprised to see so late in the War.


Somewhere in the world there's said to be a short film of Belgians fighting on the Yser, but I've never been able to find it.



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Excellent site Ironsides!


Centurion wrote:


I wish there were a way to freeze the film when one wanted to so one could look at a particular item of interest. For example there was something with a series of words including Tank writen on it but it went past too quickly. Any one know if freezing is possible?



Yes. The bottom right of the mini-video screen on which the film plays has pause and play 'buttons' which change state depending on whether you're playing or paused. Simply click on it. Also, by using the 'PrintScreen' key on your keyboard, you can take a screengrab of the entire screen, paste it into your image editing software of choice and crop to obtain the movie image.


I've attached three such screengrabs - CanFilm1 shows the screen when it's paused (hence the little 'button' shows 'play' because that's what it's 'waiting' for you to do next), CanFilm2 shows it when playing (hence the button shows 'pause').


CanFilm3 shows what I think you were after (note that you can zoom into the film - 'right click' when your cursor hovers over the movie frame, and a mini-menu appears).



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Centurion wrote:

Also some fairly old 19th century pieces amongst the more modern guns (I'm sure I saw an early Armstrong breechloader pre recoil mechanisms).

I couldn't see an Armstrong gun, but I've attached a still of a very old Krupp breechloader (4mins 43secs into the clip)...

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Thanks Roger I shall go searching this evening.


My 'Armstrong' might well be the Krupp (I'll have another look) but the basic point about the desperate situation of having to deploy such ancient weapons is still valid.



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Centurion wrote:

...but the basic point about the desperate situation of having to deploy such ancient weapons is still valid.

Totally agree there.

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If you veiw the film " Canadians at Mons " in the post war section , at the end of it you will see one of the Armoured Autocars of the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade

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Hi all, for some reason I can't edit my original post(no edit button!) so I'll add this in here
check the film called "To Willie With Compliments" its much longer then it says and includes what I think is very rare footage of MKI's in combat keep an eye on the left of the picture and you'll see one (the steering tail is obvious) participating in what looks like an attack, another appears in the distance a little later and later still a close up of a female advancing(with fancy camo and anti grenade nets steering tail and all) , I might suggest this is the Battle of the Somme.......Cheers

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The female Mk.I seen in close up is A17 "Oh I Say", taken on Nov.12, 1916.



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