[REVIEW OF GALLIPOLI]

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Year
1925
Reference
F246379
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1925
Reference
F246379
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
Australia
Categories
Newsreel

Scenes include Turkish soldiers in convoy; Australian troops and supplies on the beach at Anzac Cove; and crowds of Australian Troops relaxing and/or waiting for further orders. Intertitles : 1. Levy suceeded levy and reinforcement followed reinforcement. It was as though a whole world of Arms was pouring into Gallipoli for the Defence of the Peninsula. 2. With the Southern Continent was allied Asia, strangest bed-fellows in the strangest war an Empire ever made. 3. Had necessity arisen he could have decanted but half of Asia into the thick end of the bottle whose neck we might grasp by the merest pinch. 4. and even when, weeks later, the beach itseld had been occupied -- and the price paid -- still more man-power and more was being poured into the melting pot. 5. With the Crescent we had no quarrel, and Red Cross and Crescent blended in splendid relief to the horrors of the struggle. 6. German science and Turkish gallantry had combined in an alliance fatal to our dreams. 7. While the brunt of the first tremendous losses of the Landing had fallen upon the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps with a backing of the 29th. Division and other Imperial Troops, there were plenty of others who came only a little later. 8. The Turks had threatened to drive the Infidels into the Sea. In fact an Army far smaller but as terrible had achieved it - all the Plagues were not confined to Egypt. See Title No. 28047 for further intertitles. Amber tint on nitrate.

Catalogue entry from National Film and Sound Archive, Australia: http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=no;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=33234;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10