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The Battle of the Somme (US title, Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme), is a 1916 British documentary and propaganda war film, shot by two official cinematographers, Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell.
Sep 1, 2014 · At the Somme, the British infantry had 150,000 men against the German's 70,000. The attack was preceded by a massive week-long barrage of a thousand artillery guns, the general idea being to destroy the ground and allow the infantry to walk in and occupy it.
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Battle of the Somme was a feature-length British documentary film, shot on the western front in June and July 1916 and released while the Somme battle was still in progress. In 1915 the British government effectively sold the film rights to the war on the western front to a small group of commercial news film companies.
Cameramen Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell were there to record footage that became the cinematic sensation, Battle of the Somme. This feature film has shaped how we imagine the First World War. It blazed a trail for cinema's subsequent obsession with fictional war movies.
Geoffrey Malins helped to create an enduring record of the Battle of the Somme for future generations using the new medium of film. Malins was a portrait photographer before he joined the Clarendon Film Company’s studios in London in 1910. He soon became chief cameraman.
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British forces, chiefly 7th and 29th Divisions, on the first day of the Somme offensive, Western Front, 1 July 1916.
