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BEHIND THE LINES [Main]

WITH OUR FRENCH ALLY [series]

The film opens with Marshal Joffre talking to General Pershing. It then shows French soldiers in the rear area peeling potatoes, moving around woods, saddling pack horses to take them for a ride, and generally performing routine duties. Other men build corduroy roads or join in road-mending gangs. A bridge is built over a river using a pile-driver. A pontoon bridge is built. Infantry and guns move…

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Contributors

  • Pathe Freres

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • Joffre, Joseph Jacques Cesaire
  • Pershing, John Joseph
  • French Army
  • operations, French military - routine: [+]
  • society, French military - sustenance
  • engineering, military, French
  • equipment, French - engineering: pile-driver
  • transport, French military - rail: narrow gauge train
  • transport, French military - rail: hospital train
  • …
  • World War, 1914-1918--France
  • French Army
  • France
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film