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MARTYRED BELGIUM [on copy held]

(Missing is an opening sequence showing the tearing up of the treaty guaranteeing Belgian neutrality.) 'Martyred Belgium' is the title introducing 'scene 2'. Britannia posed beside the figure of 'Belgium' and her dead children. "What are others doing for us?" A soldier sets out for war leaving his parents in a country cottage. Muddy conditions on the Western Front are shown. A letter from the fron…

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Medewerkers

  • Gaumont

Makers

  • Pearson, George

Onderwerp

  • EFG1914
  • British Army
  • Royal Navy, Indomitable
  • French Army
  • Post Office
  • propaganda, British - practical
  • ships, British naval - destroyer: B Class
  • ships, British naval - battleship: Indomitable
  • destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment
  • destruction, Belgian military - area: artillery bombardment
  • …
  • World War I
  • Children and war
  • British Army
  • French Army
  • Eerste Wereldoorlog

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