More than 100 years ago cameramen Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell arrived on the Somme about a week before “Z” day. Their documentary Battle of the Somme is significant as an early example of film propaganda, an historical record of the battle and as a popular source of footage illustrating the First World War.
YouTuber MC C stood in the exact locations where Malins and McDowell shot their footage and re-filmed them to provide a fascinating Then and Now recreation.
(Grabbed from my friend Hal's Facebook page)
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