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Title
How Britain prepared
Type
Text
Monograph
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain--Motion pictures and the war (LCSH)
Theater programs--Washington (D.C.) (RBGENR)
Theater programs--1916 (RBGENR)
Motion picture programs--Washington (D.C.) (LCSH)
Motion picture programs--1916 (LCSH)
Place
United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
Language
English
Geographic Coverage
Great Britain
Classification
LCC: PN2093 .A44 1877 no. Thr. E/H
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Content
text
Note
In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Summary
Bill of the play. Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., David Belasco and Sam S. and Lee Shubert, proprietors and managers, direction of Sam S. and Lee Shubert (Inc.), L. Stoddard Taylor, resident manager. "How Britain Prepared," official films of the British Empire, produced under the auspices of Earl Kitchener, Minister of War, Hon. Arthur Balfour, 1st Lord of the Admiralty, Hon. Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions. Made under the direction of Charles Urban, Patriot Film Corporation, New York, lessees and distributors.
Table Of Contents
Part 1. Showing how five million British civilians were turned into a highly efficient army within fifteen months. a. Recruiting and drilling of volunteers
b. Making munition (manufacturing shrapnel shells)
c. The visit of H.M. King George V to the ordnance works of Messrs. Vickers, Ltd.
d. Trench work
e. Cavalry, artillery, and mounted infantry
f. Field Telegraph and Signalling Corps
g. Royal Flying Corps
h. Motor-cycle machine-gun section (four batteries) at work
i. Provisioning an army
j. His Majesty King George V
k. Off to the front
l. Fighting in Flanders
Interval
Part II. How Britain controls the seas with the Great North Sea Fleet on guard and in action. l. Building and launching a battleship, scenes at the naval construction works fo Messrs. Vickers, Ltd.
m. A naval gun in the making
n. On a British mine-sweeper
o."The Silent Sentinel"
p. With the grand fleet in the North Sea
q. The submarine service
r. "Jack Afloat"
s. The "Hornets" of the fleet
t. Battleships in action.
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How Britain prepared