... photoplay. THE TANKS IN BIRMINGHAM. Although the Ancre battle and advance of the Tanks film, which had its first run in Birmingham last week. did not create so much sensation as the Battle of the Somme pictures, there has been a bigger demand for copies ...

... WELSH, AGENT FOR OFFICIAL PICTURES. Interesting details of the manner iil xvhich those historic film records, The Battle of the Somme, ' King George at the Front, and other British ' Official war pictures are to be introduced to the French public ...

... remarkable strip °f transparent paper film, and, finally, the historic sine' camera which. vas used to record The Battle of the Somme in the present war. A number of local picturedromes and film firo . availed themselves of the miniature screen, which ...

... film in a new character. The pictures shown , at the Empire Cinema ar worthy of unqualified consideration. The Battle of the Somme ',will be filmed week at the Picture Thezare • Another startling specimen of Cinema lish reaches me from Egypt in ...

... obligation of doing his or her bit to the rmost. . The Series known as the War films, which have adv comprised (1) The Battle of the Somme, The King Visits His Armies in the Great \ranee, (3) The Advance of the Tanks and the attle of the Ancre, is sh ...

... in pointing out the difficulties of handling such a picture, which was not limited in copies as in the case of The Battle of the .Somme, the great sucess of which created sudh a demand for the second film, urged 'upon exhibitors the, importance of the ...

... Office Official film which ought, in point of k e rlt, to be an even greater success than The Battle of the Somme ' lch drew millions to see it. ' The Battle of Arras 'is the greatest eture of the war so far.—Weekly Despatch. —The People Altogether ...

... of this wonderful series of pictures. Mr. Malins, whose work in connedion with the battles of the Somme and the Ancre will be well remembered, is responsible for much of the portion relating to the German retreat, not by any means the least interesting ...

... he says : No imaginative painting or drawing depicting these twentieth-century battles has thrilled me so surely as that very wonderful film The Battle of the / Somme.' After this who shall say that cinematography is not art? * I should like to take ...

... scenes . were taken under fire. Mr. Weisker says the London report on this film is that it is the best since the Battle of the Somme. The Management of the Scala. Mr. Alfred Levy, of the Scala, Liverpool, writes to me, objecting to the description ...

... interesting, but the attendance of exhibitors surely showed that interest in war subjects has sadly dwindled since The Battle of the Somme was first shown. On Thursday I Will' Repay, a strong Western subject, was screened by Messrs. Ruffells in the Salon ...

... staff. He joined the Sherwood Foresters and first saw active service on the Western Front, where he went through the battles of the Somme unscathed. He was subsequently transferred to the Italian Front, where, although badly wounded, he carried on for ...