News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

287-1

Date Released

21 Feb 1917

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Premier Watches Rugby Match
• 2. All Blacks V Asc
• 3. Uncle Sam’s Army
• 4. On the March

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "The United States Army is recruited by voluntary enlistment, the actual strength in 1915 being 5,000 officers and 93 thousand men. An inspection of American Troops at a camp in the Southern States." Large number of American troops lining up on a parade ground. Column of black troops march past camera. Black troops (in casual uniform) walk one by one past an inspecting white officer.

Keywords

Ethnic groups; Military

Length of story (in feet)

62

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

For BFI National Archive enquiries:
nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web

Phone

020 7255 1444

Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

21 Stephen Street
London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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