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GRIFFITH AT THE FRONT [Main]

HEARTS OF THE WORLD (production scenes) [related]

The film starts with Griffith talking to the abbot and another monk outside the Cistercian abbey at Mont des Cats, used as a casualty clearing station. Griffith is then shown with two British officers entering and leaving a Red Cross station on Kemmel Ridge. The main part of the film shows Griffith's tour over the Ypres ridges. This begins in a trench with British soldiers "sixty yards from the Ge…

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Contributors

  • War Office Cinema Committee

Subject

  • EFG1914
  • Griffith, D W
  • Gibbs, Philip Armand Hamilton
  • British Army
  • Belgian Army
  • Belgian Catholic Church
  • buildings, Belgian - religious: monastery
  • buildings, Belgian - residential
  • delegations, United States international - goodwill
  • journalism and record, United States - press
  • …
  • World War, 1914-1918--Motion pictures and the war
  • British Army
  • Philip Gibbs
  • Philip Gibbs
  • World War I

Type of item

  • motion pictures (visual works)
  • Film