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51393: Ypres - The Shell Shattered City of Flanders, 1916, Official Pictures of the British Army in France

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posted on 2024-05-09, 09:49 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Damage to the town of Ypres, Western Front, February 1916. A panorama of the city. Views of the main square taken from the area of Hellfire Corner. The Cloth Hall, most of it still intact. Exterior and interior scenes of the cathedral, showing the west door and the fact that the organ has been destroyed. British soldiers pet two black and white puppies abandoned in the ruins. A longer version with the same title, now held as IWM 344, was released in 1918, showing scenes up to the end of the war.

History

Identifier

5740.mp4 | IWMFILM206-low.mp4

Subject

Landscape | Western Front | Ypres

Creator

War Office

Date

Mar-16

Date Created

01/03/1916

Temporal Date

31/03/1916

Spatial

Ypres, Belgium

Source

DVD copy of original film

Medium

DVD copy of original film

Type

Footage

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Imperial War Museum

Collection ID

IWM 206

Repository Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Repository Address

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Producer

The British Topical Committee for War Films

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