Film
The original First World War collection comprised over 1,000 items of film relating mainly to the last three years of the war. Highlights of the collection include the original 1916 record of The Battle of the Somme, home front material such as Mrs John Bull Prepared (1918), a substantial run of the French official newsreel Annales de la Guerre and the remarkable record of German U-boat operations in the Mediterranean in 1917, Der Magische Gurtel.
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