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Rare footage of WWI Gallipoli battle unearthed
Reuters ^
| Apr 18, 2007
| Stephanie Boyle
Posted on 04/18/2007 10:35:57 PM PDT by george76
The Australian War Memorial has unearthed what it believes is the only footage of Anzac Cove during the Gallipoli battle of World War One, an iconic event in Australian history which is commemorated each year on Anzac Day.
The one-minute grainy black and white film, which shows the shoreline at Anzac Cove and British soldiers massing at Suvla Bay, was shot in 1915 during the pioneering era of film.
The footage pans across Anzac Cove from a position on the southern headland, showing a clutter of jetties and stores being unloaded.
"Because we have so little authentic footage, everything we can add to this counts as a major discovery, a new possibility for study,"
The Anzac Cove footage is believed to have been shot by British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, whose report of the Gallipoli landings was the first to reach Australia.
Ashmead-Bartlett produced a 20-minute film "With the Dardanelles Expedition: Heroes of Gallipoli" -- the only known movie footage shot on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915 and shows the first genuine vision of troops in action in trenches.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: anzac; anzaccove; ashmead; ashmeadbartlett; australian; australianhistory; bartlett; gallipoli; gallipolibattle; godsgravesglyphs; history; sydney
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:35:59 PM PDT
by
george76
To: Aussie Dasher
Aussie Ping to you, mate.
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:42:48 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
I’d like to see that.....hopefully a vid on the net will appear.
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:44:31 PM PDT
by
chasio649
To: george76
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:44:57 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: chasio649
that was meant for you george76
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:46:09 PM PDT
by
chasio649
To: george76
Lost films are amazingly interesting. So many iconic images are simple worn away. A lot of known, but not seen, items from before the mid 30’s are mostly gone, with the occasional found item. Hitchcock’s first movie, lost except for a few promotional frames.
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:47:15 PM PDT
by
Tolsti
To: Southack
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:49:59 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Tolsti; SunkenCiv
It is always fun for me to see old ( lost ) found films.
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:52:02 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
To: chasio649
Very possible as the AWM does have a lot of digitised stuff available.
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:52:45 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: george76
Chocolate soldiers, unnecessarily sacrificed.
May the Pommy Officers who failed to synchronize their watches rot in hell for eternity.
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posted on
04/18/2007 10:57:27 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(NO to Rudy in 2008! New York's Values are NOT America's Values! RUN FRED RUN!)
To: george76; chasio649; Southack; Lancey Howard; Clemenza
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posted on
04/18/2007 11:03:20 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(a globalized and integrated world - which is coming, one way or the other. - Hillary)
To: endthematrix
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posted on
04/18/2007 11:08:52 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: endthematrix
To: endthematrix
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posted on
04/18/2007 11:17:15 PM PDT
by
DocRock
(What would Solomon Do?)
To: endthematrix
To: Clemenza
Have you read “Redemption” by Leon Uris? The Gallipoli section describes a living hell in that place.
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posted on
04/19/2007 12:11:52 AM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: camle
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posted on
04/19/2007 3:41:15 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you)
To: george76
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posted on
04/19/2007 3:56:44 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
To: endthematrix
Cool! Bump for later after work!
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