Red Cross Dogs (1914) - First World War | BFI National Archive
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Red Cross Dogs (1914) - First World War | BFI National Archive Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetotheBFI Watch more 1914 films on the BFI Player: http://bit.ly/1pffvkP More videos about the First World War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOGU5cEHyfg&list=PLXvkgGofjDzid2ODxnNojodGZS9Lovxox This Topical Budget newsreel item shows a parade of clever canines known as 'sanitatshunde' - sanitary dogs - in Germany, leaving Berlin for the Front. The hounds were specially trained to silently hunt WWI trenches and battlefields under the cover of darkness, retrieving injured servicemen. This relatively innocuous story offered British audiences a safe sortie into enemy territory. Topical Budget had three cameramen operating near the Front in the early months of WWI, filming extensively in France and Belgium. But footage from Germany is rare - these pictures were surely bought in, rather than actually shot by Topical. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFI Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BritishFilmInstitute Follow us on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+britishfilminstitute/ More about the BFI: http://www.bfi.org.uk/ -
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Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJyEHypBv6A
Resource type: Video
Last modified: 10 years ago
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