Testing Artillery Guns (1914-1918)

Testing Artillery Guns. Location of events unknown. Tests of moving artillery over rough ground. Pulling gun carriage over a strip of ground between road and railroad track; with holes in ground - like concrete boxes or troughs set into ground. As the artillery guns cross; the wheels fall into these big rectangular holes; and the carriage is stuck for a moment but is pulled forward; by ropes from each side. All sorts of angles of this same thing - front of gun approaching; side CU as it goes by; back CU; then moving away. Soldiers in the road watch the test. Transportation; weapons. World War One. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1