A Day At The Front - a short film set in a WW1 trench (Colour)
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- This short film represents the more personal aspects of life for a British Tommy in the trenches of WW1.
This was our very first attempt at making a short film back in 1992. We dug and kitted out a small replica WW1 trench in the back garden of my suburban semi in Wirral, much to the delight of my neighbours! Although the footage was shot in 1992 it has only just been digitised and edited (2014)! Unfortunately the tapes had degraded quite a bit so the quality isn't good, but nonetheless it shows what we were trying to achieve.
My good friend Paul (Richard) Gardiner, who sadly passed away this year, had all the ideas, inspiration and creativity and, of course, played the part of The Tommy. I'm the technical guy who did all the filming and editing, but with a bit of creativity thrown in too :)
Music:
"The Lark Ascending" by Vaughan Williams
"Pack Up Your Troubles" sung by Murray Johnson
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now add 1000 liters of mud, dense fog, loads of other soldiers sitting and dwelling around on closest space possible, the smell of burned and decaying corpses and sporadic shaking ground and raining gravel from artillery shells. now your ww1 adventure is finished.
+Afro Blasterman Yeah this hardly seems like a WW1 trench at all. Where a soldier gets his own personal little space, a good nights sleep, and is all happy. Soldiers got few hours of sleep because of the constant bombings and the fact that they slept in little cubbies. I also saw no dead bodies on the ground as to protect from the cold water flooding the trenches.
And Gas, never ending Artillery and constant screams of agony, your friends dying next to you, people asking you to shoot them because they're drowning in mud, horses literally exploding everywhere, dysentery, not being able to leave the trench to go to the bathroom so shit and piss everywhere. All the water is contaminated with gas, blood, dirt, and anything else you can think of but there's no water to drink. getting lost in the dark and falling into an artillery crater full of that festering water and not being able to get out. Just fucking brutal
There was lots of boredom, but you'd be head to toe covered in mud
Winkinger u must be a soldier
Benjamin Lafever
As you stated Benjamin, brutal.....,.
Richard was our tour guide on two tours. Both my favourite. He knew the line between being the guide and being a teacher and being a fun guide. The kids loved him. He is missed by us all. But just think of all those souls from WW1 he is now with! That'll keep him busy.
He's dead?What happened?
One of the best of the war shorts I've seen. I love how it's done as a silent movie with the perfect music added. Shows the tedium and deprivation that a soldier goes through. Great job.
Yes
Folger's in your "helmet"...😉
A very heart warming video makes you feel sorry for him he looks homesick, alone yet still being a soldier
"The Lark Ascending" was a really good choice for this. Thank you for sharing this labor of love!
Excellent, a fitting tribute to the soldiers in the trenches. A wonderful short film made by two enthusiasts.
Everything is way to clean but a good job anyway
German bunkers
@@hdexotic1914 same
They had to return it to the costume store by 930
This song is so good! 14:56
I think it is
It is a long way to tippary
It's not
Very interesting short.I "first" discovered ww1 through " Goodbye to all that",then " Guns of August", "Verdun,the price of glory"," Storm of steel" ,Wilfred Owen and now Barbusse"s Under Fire.And the list is likely to go on and on.Am thankful,every day,for having enough to eat and a nice bed to lie on at night.Just imagine going through the horror these soldiers went through.Of course our own "enlightened world can go to smithereens any minute.Still,theres so much to be thankful for.
Same
I really enjoy seeing short films. But this one is one of the best I've seen. Very simple yet the emotions are strong. Good job mate :D
themaninthetube1 Thanks for that, I really appreciate the comment :D
Great little film. Your friend's enthusiasm for the project is evident! Lark Ascending is fitting too for this short film.
This was brilliant
“Well boys…. here it comes…. We’re in the pictures. Eh huh,”. - They Shall Not Grow Old
This was realy well done.
Wonderfully shot, wonderfully edited and wonderfully played. It captures the monotony and general “getting on with life” aspect of serving at the front. Even better because it’s silent.
I think the degraded quality of the film makes it better. It seems to add a more "vintage" weight.
This short is somewhat satisfying. :)
the most amazing thing about world war 1 is that soldiers had to do the same thing for four years (1914-1918)
Well shit, it's just another happy day in the trenches!
Very Well done, even with no dialogue, you can just get an atmosphere of what it would have been like
Unbelievable true account of it, I believe.. Masterpiece
This is a pretty good impersonation all it needs now is the mud and the rats and entanglements of barbed wire that stretches out for miles into no-man's-land
haha 15:23
not really smart
not funny
Lucas Logan why not?
@@RickBrode gun aiming.
Very good video, really accurate, great attention to detail,,,,I fired a 303 once and it will blow a very large hole in an industrial freezer like the ones they have at Walmart in the meat section,,,,,
Love the stashe
Very good!
14:56 is the reason why I'm here now.
They living much better than homeless people
that was actually a nice trench.
must of been stationed in the better part of the system.
Those Enfields were nice.
Great film. Really enjoyed it.
Why was this under closure for so long? Brits: For not leaking intel oc. ... Oc.
thats what we call the ideal trench about 20% of all trenches were like that the other 80.... on the other hand...
Beautiful
Ya need the real rifle A big bore Enfield 303. They had a good kick when fired. small entrance wound but big exit.
The first time I picked up a .303 - I was told NEVER PALM THE FUCKIN' BOLT LADDIE......
Life was very tough 🙁
What about the schtew, a cohn beef schtew?
All the lads do it.
they would fix bayonets just before going over the top. they would do it when the commander shouts 'fix bayonts' and is repeated down the trench by other commanders
doing all the necessities of life and fight a war... in a hole in the ground. those men must have been tough as nails
seems a nice place how to I get there because I wanna spend my holidays there
Why be so mean, if anybody who served in the real WWI Was still alive hope to god that they don’t see this that is really mean
I'm making a ww1 trench short film and been struggling to find a location)=
wondering were you shot this?
Five minute History well first will there be other soldiers
the rifle thay are using is right
I always heard you were rarely able to stand upright
whatched the hole thing I deserve aa cookie
Ну конечно, таки заглядение! Ни вшей, ни крыс, ни окопной жижи и гнилых ног...сухо и чистенько и даже свежий кофе по утрам. Видимо условия у британцев в окопах были не такие ужастные в Первую мировую как у остальных солдат других армий. :-)))
nice video
What's the background music called
It's "The Lark Ascending" by Vaughan Williams
Im pretty sure they did some fighting too.
The first scene when they woke this guy up was probably in a reserve trench back a few hundred yards back from the front trenches.Otherwise he would be asleep with all his equipment on ready for "stand too" for a few hours before he had his tea and breakfast unless an attack from the Germans started just then.Otherwise there were no soldiers running about or Officers and NCOs making sure they were on their feet that morning.
+reddevilparatrooper For that matter, he does not relieve nor hands over the observation post to anyone visible. Oh well, that is quibbling over a fine short film.
+reddevilparatrooper When he is at the firing post he makes the classic civvie mistake of not having a back cloth behind his head especially when the sun is behind him, silhouetted he makes a perfect target for a sniper
+Dave Hopkin Yep you are right.Them German snipers were a nuisance. Ouch..
+reddevilparatrooper Basic fieldcraft - Shape, Shine, Shadow, Silhouette, Spacing, Sound, Movement.......
They get drummed into you at the School of Infantry
+Dave Hopkin Indeed Sir !My Drill Sergeants at Ft.Benning Infantry School made us do push ups,low crawl,just to emphasize basic infantry skills.Once in combat then it becomes a reflex.
from the wirral small world
途中で洗面器が膨張してない？
塹壕の端っこって案外良物件ですね。
He is on the firing line and smoking? As soon as a German sees the smoke above the trench he will toss a grenade over.
Holy crap in macaroinis in lemons
Is there any one in this army
does anyone know where i can get a replica lee enfield?
Denix
Is this a Disney movie?
where is the other soldiers?
Tide Bleach it's a one man army
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This Tommy has a pretty good bunker don't he? You can just feel the boredom & monotony at first.....
They would not have there bayonets on unless they where told to do so before an assault. Apart from that good job.
c'est absurde la vie dans les tranchées n'était pas aussi belle
But still good show
i'd heard you had to shave every single day, except you were required to grow a mustache, for some reason, if you were able.
I like the music - most appropriate. Trench life, other than if under attack or preparing to attack seems dull, colourless & BORING!!!
Its pretto acuret but more soldisets is needed and more dirty pants and shoes
Looks like you are enjorying yourself to much taking your time, you also forgot the rats.
That guy has awful gun safety. One in the chamber and be puts his head right by the barrel. Hence why you assemble bayonet first or outwardly
he is busy doing nothing
Wrong rifle that's an American rifle not the British rifle
+LIIV Milk Man That does surprise me as Paul was very knowledgable about these things. Perhaps as this was made 23 years ago it was all he had available at the time? He had an excellent collection of WW1 items worthy of a museum by the time he died last year. Anyway, this film wasn't really about complete accuracy with the props etc, it was just a first attempt to see what we could do and to get across a general impression. I'm glad you still liked the film.
+LIIV Milk Man My great-great uncle served in the Winnipeg Grenadiers and was issued with an American Springfield re-chamberd to fire a .303 round.
+RtC LIIV uhmmmm yea no thats a Lee Enfield MK1 no1.
Standard issue rifle for the British soldiers in WW1
+Mark Haushahn cool i live in winnipeg
MarsTheGodOfWar
I'm Southeast of you in St. Paul.
The music totally ruins the whole idea ... it's just pathetic.
Dreem Walker You're entitled to your opinion. Most people I know who have seen this film like the music and think it's entirely appropriate as it's from that time. Being unnecessarily rude is what I call pathetic.
MeoniaMajic
Sure ... you can try to play victim here .. but it doesn't change facts. The music sucks and the video is so full of inaccuracies it's embarrassing.
Dreem Walker Perhaps you would have preferred a heavy metal soundtrack? Shame that wasn't about in 1914! As to any innacuracies, we didn't do too badly considering we had almost no budget, and it was only an early experimental film made 23 years ago. The reason I posted it on TH-cam was as a tribute to my friend Paul (the actor in the film) who sadly died last year, so respect that if nothing else.
MeoniaMajic
Him I do respect and his sad passing. But it's just silly to think that I would prefer a heavy metal soundtrack. But the trenches weren't that happy or romantic, and if you really would like to be historical correct, that tune is also way out of it's time. One little help about inaccuracies .. no soldier lived alone like that, and no officers lived in the trenches
@@dreem1walker Just fucking leave
He is not wearing a belt this is wrong it was the rule to always have belt on