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The Battle of the Somme (film)
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The Battle of the Somme (Scots: The Battle o the Somme) is a 1916 Breetish documentar an propaganda film. Shot bi twa offeecial cinematographers, Geoffrey Malins an John McDowell, the film depicts the Breetish Airmy's preparations for, an the early stages o, the battle o the Somme. Premiered in Lunnon on 10 August 1916 an lowsed generally on 21 August, whiles the battle continued in Fraunce, the film gied a gey graphic depiction o trench warfare, shawin deid an woundit Breetish an German sodgers. The film wis a massive success, sellin some twanty million tickets in its first sax weeks o lowse in Breetain an gaein on tae be distributit in auchteen ither kintras. A seicont film, kiverin a later phase o the battle, wis lowsed in 1917 as The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks.
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Produced bi | William F. Jury |
Muisic bi | J. Morton Hutcheson (oreeginal 1916 medley) Laura Rossi (2006) |
Cinematography | Geoffrey H. Malins John B. McDowell |
Eeditit bi | Charles Urban |
Distributit bi | British Topical Committee for War Films |
Release date | 21 August 1916 November 2008 (DVD, digitally restored) |
Rinnin time | 62 meen. (1916) 74 meen. (2006) |
Kintra | Unitit Kinrick |
Leid | Seelent film Inglis interteetles |
Preservit in the film archive o the Imperial War Museum syne 1920, the film wis inscreived on UNESCO's Memory o the Warld Register in 2005. The film haes syne been digitally restored an lowsed on DVD in 2008. The Battle of the Somme bides signeeficant the day as a early ensaumple o film propaganda technique, as a historical record o the battle, an as a frequent springheid o fitage illustratin the First Warld War.[1][2]