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	Shot on the Somme: Extraordinary footage taken seconds before soldiers went over the top - Independent Online Edition ...
		Roger Smither, head of the film and video archive at the Imperial War Museum, which owns the copyright to The Battle of the Somme, said: "The film created a very, very big noise when it was first released in 1916, and there was a certain amount of discussion over its controversial nature.
		The Battle of the Somme was supposed to be won by the Allies on that first day of July.
		The 90th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme will be officially marked on Saturday with a commemorative service in France, attended by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, as well as 110-year-old Henry Allingham, the last surviving British veteran of the Somme.
	news.independent.co.uk /uk/this_britain/article1096231.ece (0 words)

	ireland.com / Focus / The Somme
		The optimism of the 19th century, the belief that progress was inevitable and that humanity was on a straight road to civilisation, was blown apart in those explosions, sunk in the blood-soaked mud of the Somme, caught on the barbed wire of massive, pitiless and futile slaughter.
		In order to use the memory of the Somme to bolster obedience to authority, it was necessary to forget that the courage and self-sacrifice of the troops was betrayed by the folly of their leaders.
		In order to use the Somme as a marker of Protestant character, it was necessary to forget, not merely the presence of Catholic nationalist divisions, but also the fact that the Ulster Division had fought in what was seen as a typically "Irish" way.
	www.ireland.com /focus/thesomme (1099 words)

	battle of the somme (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One purpose of the battle was to draw German forces away from the battle of Verdun; however, by its end the losses on the Somme had exceeded those at Verdun.
		As horrific as the battle of the Somme is in British memory, it also had a staggering impact on the German army; one officer famously described it as "the muddy grave of the German field army".
		The Battle of the Somme damaged the German Army beyond repair, after which it was never able to adequately replace its casualties with the same calibre of soldier that doggedly held its ground during most of the battle.
	www.worldwar1-history.com /Battle-of-the-Somme.aspx (5527 words)

	Battle of the Somme (1916) information - Search.com
		In one significant respect, the Battle of the Somme was a major strategic success for the British as on 12 July, in response to the Somme fighting and the situation in the east, Falkenhayn called off the German offensive at Verdun.
		The attack, known as the battle of Bazentin Ridge, was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from Pozières, on the Albert–Bapaume road, southeast towards the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.
		The British daily loss rate during the Battle of the Somme was 2,943 men, which exceeded the loss rate during the Third Battle of Ypres but was not as severe as the two months of the battle of Arras (4,076 per day) or the final Hundred Days offensive in 1918 (3,685 per day).
	www.search.com /reference/Battle_of_the_Somme_(1916) (6613 words)

	Battle of the Somme - First World War in the News
		A Death at the Battle of the Somme, 1916
		The Battle of the Somme was one of the costliest of the WW1.
		Also included in Somme 1916 is a full history of the current cemeteries and memorials, thumbnail biographies of all the senior officers to fall, as well as the winners of the Victoria Cross and those who were 'shot at dawn'.
	firstworldwar.cloudworth.com /somme-battlefield.php (2235 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of the Somme, 1916
		Comprising the main Allied attack on the Western Front during 1916, the Battle of the Somme is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, 1 July 1916, which to this day remains a one-day record.
		The German Verdun offensive transformed the intent of the Somme attack; the French demanded that the planned date of the attack, 1 August 1916, be brought forward to 1 July, the aim chiefly being to divert German resources from Verdun in the defence of the Somme.
		Meanwhile the British attack was renewed in north-east, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, by the Fourth Army on 15 September.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/somme.htm (1956 words)

	Battle of the Somme
		Quest’anno presenterà al pubblico delle Giornate la ricostruzione dell’accompagnamento originale di Battle of the Somme e un adattamento della riduzione per pianoforte delle partitura originale di Civilization.
		Based at the National Film Theatre but working at venues around Britain (including the Nottingham Silent Weekend) and internationally (including New York’s Lincoln Center and the Telluride Film Festival), he has recorded accompaniments for TV broadcasts, DVD releases, and museum projections of silent films.
		Da quasi 25 anni accompagna film muti in Australia, Nuova Zelanda, Stati Uniti, Israele, Svezia, Germania, Francia, Lussemburgo e, in Italia, ai festival di Bergamo, Bologna, oltre che a Pordenone/Sacile.
	www.cinetecadelfriuli.org /gcm/edizione2006/TheBattle.html (0 words)

	Laura Rossi - Credits
		At the end of June 1916, two newsreel cameramen were allowed to record the opening stages of the Battle of the Somme.
		The film was screened at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the premiere of Laura's orchestral score, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
		These films revolutionized the British public's concept of the war and record working scenes in and about the trenches and include the first shots of tanks at the front.
	www.laurarossi.com /credits.html (928 words)

	Laura Rossi - Live Music to Film Events
		Silent Shakespeare' was also chosen as an event for the 2005 Belfast film festival and has also been performed live with film at The Barbican, London.
		The BFI Silent Shakespeare films are scored for piano and string quartet.
		But in the early years of cinema, a number of exquisite silent film adaptations of Shakespeare’s work were made, with the narrative delicately conveyed through looks, gestures, and silent film’s nearest approach to dialogue, the inter-title.
	www.laurarossi.com /silentfilmevents.html (392 words)

	World War 1 on Film - Worldwar-1.net
		Through this drama, the details of the Sandringham's fateful, misconceived campaign are brought to life, reconstructing the true story of a group of gentile, amateur soldiers who valiantly marched to their doom.
		The film is less an ordinary adventure than an experience that leaves an overwhelming sense memory of the struggle between two powerful forces: the Arabian deserts, immense, intractable, ever-shifting, punishing; and T.E. Lawrence, humble as a monk, flamboyant as a rock star, protean, polymathic, heroic, enigmatic, mad.
		THE TRENCH tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history.
	www.worldwar-1.net /world-war-1-on-film/world-war-1-on-film-index.htm (2002 words)

	Somme and Ypres battlefield tours - Conducted tours page
		Our 'Somme and Ypres' tour is best suited to those who wish to visit perhaps the two most significant battlefields of the Great War.
		By spending all our time "on the Somme" we are able to visit some of the most poignant sites on the battlefield at a more leisurely pace and in greater depth.
		The soldier being carried died a few minutes after this footage was taken on the first day of the battle of the Somme (1st July 1916).
	www.battlefield-tours.com /conducted_tour_ypres_and_somme_.htm (2151 words)

	The National Archives Learning Curve \| Focus on Film
		On Film is a jointly funded project by The National Archives and the South East Grid for Learning.
		This site presents film as a historical source and considers its advantages and disadvantages as evidence for the past.
		This article outlines with film clips, some of the issues relating to film as evidence.
	www.learningcurve.gov.uk /focuson/film (0 words)

	Laura Rossi - News
		A collection of silent film shorts of Shakespeare’s works will be projected on to the exterior walls of the theatre, with live musical accompaniment from composer Laura Rossi and the Fourth Dimension String Quartet.
		Recently inscribed in the UNESCO 'Memory of the World Register', the Imperial War Museum has prepared a re-mastered version for the 90th anniversary, which for this screening is to be complemented by the premiere of an orchestral accompaniment composed by Laura Rossi and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
		The film was premiered at Edinburgh film festival on 18th and 19th August 2006 and released by Vertigo Films later this year.
	www.laurarossi.com /news.html (691 words)

	Free film Essays
		trilogy, this film was released in 1999 and revolutionised films.
		Reaction to the Film Ghandi - Reaction to the Film Ghandi.
		The film 'The Battle of The Somme' was released in Londonon the 10th.
	www.123helpme.com /search.asp?text=film (3438 words)

	National Army Museum : Exhibitions : The Somme (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An exhibition on The Battle of the Somme, curated by TV historian Andrew Robertshaw, opened at the National Army Museum on 1st July 2006 to mark the 90th anniversary of one of history’s most controversial battles.
		The Somme exhibition has been planned to explore the facts and the perceptions of the Somme, and allow visitors to decide where they stand on a battle in which over 1,200,000 soldiers became casualties.
		The result is an exhibition that offers multiple perspectives on the Battle of the Somme: those of the British politicians faced with substantial Allied losses, to the generals, their critics, and the voices of those who fought at the Somme, and who died.
	www.national-army-museum.ac.uk /exhibitions/theSomme (824 words)

	RSA - New - The Battle of the Somme film - 27 June 2006
		RSA - New - The Battle of the Somme film - 27 June 2006
		To commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the opening of the Somme offensive on 1 July 1916 the NZ Film Archive presents two screenings of the classic film The Battle of the Somme (UK, 1916) with live piano accompaniment.
		The Battle of the Somme was first shown to an invited audience in London on 10 August 1916, barely six-weeks after the opening of the offensive on 1 July.
	www.rsa.org.nz /about/nws2006jun/somme_film.htm (335 words)

	HSC Online
		The Battle of the Somme was actually a series of battles covering a 40 kilometre front, with the British troops (including the Australians, who were still under British command) fighting to the north, and the French fighting to the south of the Somme River.
		These semi-official publications, together with other types of official propaganda, including the film of the Battle of the Somme, are attempts by the authorities to convince the public that the fighting is worthwhile and must be continued.
		The words "authoritative work on one of the Greatest Battles in History" and "authentic pictures/by arrangement with the War Office" are to convince the public that it is being informed with authority and honesty on the progress of the battle.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /modern_history/core_study/ww1/somme/page85.htm (2538 words)

	The Battle of the Somme - Cheetham
		The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War, with more than one million casualties.
		The Battle of the Somme was part of the ‘War of Attrition’ phase of World War One.
		This was to be one of the most famous battles in English history, a battle of horrific and traumatising slaughter of the human race.
	www.johndclare.net /wwi2_Somme_Pollock.htm (2740 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| First World War \| Battles
		The Somme offensive became a predominantly British operation, in the hands of the commander-in-chief of the British army in France,
		As mud and rain began to make conditions impossible, the Battle of the Somme was finally brought to a halt on 18 November.
		The unprecedented carnage of the Battle of the Somme marked a turning point in public perceptions of the war in Britain.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/battles/somme.htm (658 words)

	Yet Another Bloody War Film
		In their films, and in the films of others, Germans are frequently depicted as torn between duty to country and hatred of the Nazi system.
		Film producers were more interested in neo-realist dramas of working class life, while the audience was up for some escapist relief, preferably with Margaret Lockwood in nice frocks being beastly or Anna Neagle in nice frocks being romanced by Michael Wilding.
		Films where the only purpose for Germans was to go "Aargh!" as they died in a hail of bullets.
	www.britishpictures.com /articles/warfilm.htm (1362 words)

	Battle of the Somme (1916)
		A screening of The Battle of the Somme (1916), with the premiere of an orchestral accompaniment composed by Laura Rossi and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
		The Battle of the Somme was the first British Offensive of the First World War to which cameramen were given access, in order to film the front -line action as it took place.
		The resulting 80-minute film, relearsed in Britain in 1916, made an enormous impression on the public and was seen by at least half the population.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /concerts/22oct06qeh (175 words)

	WW1 - The Battle of the Somme
		Highest point was Thiepval-Ginchy Ridge at 300 ft high, gave Germans clear view south and north of the slopes to the valley of the River Ancre.
		Liddel Hart wrote the battle "proved both the glory and the graveyard" of Kitchener's Pals.
		The IWM exhibit in 2006 corrected many of the myths of the battle.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/ww1/somme.html (1898 words)

	screenonline: Battle of Arras, The (1917)
		One of the official silent films of the Western Front made for showing in British cinemas during the war, this film's full title was The German Retreat and the Battle of Arras.
		It was the last, and least successful, of the three 'big battle' pictures made between summer 1916 and spring 1917 by British official cameramen.
		It was a recognition of these limitations which led to the shift away from the 'big battle' format.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/746644 (164 words)

	The Battle of Somme
		On Saturday, July 1, 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, the 1st Newfoundland Regiment was virtually annihilated at Beaumont Hamel.
		It was confidently expected they would smash through the German defences and clear a path for the cavalry to advance to the Channel coast.
		Part of the 88th brigade in the 29th British Division, the 1st Newfoundland Regiment was assigned a role with the second attacking wave.
	www.angelfire.com /film/historyprojet30/5.html (773 words)

	Battle of the Somme Film - Imperial War Museum
		A special screening of the Battle of the Somme Film wil take place as part of the Imperial War Museums 90th anniversary Somme memorial this October.
		At the end of June 1916 two newsreel camermen were given premission to film the opening stages of the Battle of the Somme.
		The resulting eighty minute film captured audiences in the grim reality of the war and was seen by more than fifty percent of the popultation of Britain.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /whats-on-details-1187.html (217 words)

	Somme 1916 - A Battlefield Companion
		Somme 1916 covers everything from the famous battle sites such as High Wood and Mametz Wood to obscure villages on the outlying flanks.
		The author draws on the latest research and analysis, as well as the testimony ofthose who took part, to present all aspects of a battle that was to become a symbol of the horrors of the Great War.
		This edition of Somme 1916 has been greatly expanded and updated to include a Somme diary, a new selection of contemporary illustrations, a complete order of battle for the British and German forces in the Somme for July to November 1916 and a listing of 'lost cemeteries'.
	www.haynes.co.uk /webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/BookFeature_Somme1916View?new=Y&storeId=10051&catalogId=10051 (410 words)

	United Kingdom - The Battle of the Somme: UNESCO-CI
		In the latter role, the film played a major part in establishing the methodology of documentary and propaganda film, and initiated debate on a number of issues relating to the ethical treatment of “factual” film which continue to be relevant to this day.
		Seen by many millions of British civilians within the first month of distribution, The Battle of the Somme was recognized at the time as a phenomenon that allowed the civilian home-front audience to share the experiences of the front-line soldier, thus helping both to create and to reflect the concept of Total War.
		Finally, it has importance as one of the foundation stones of the film collection of the Imperial War Museum, an institution that may claim to be among the oldest film archives in the world.
	portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=16263&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (210 words)

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