Britain Prepared facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Britain Prepared |
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Kinemacolor still from the film
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| Produced by | Charles Urban |
| Cinematography | Edward Tong, Charles Urban, Charlie Weddup, Fred Wilson |
| Distributed by | War Propaganda Bureau, The Cinema Committee |
| Release date(s) | 29 December 1915 |
| Running time | 165 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
Britain Prepared (1915) is a British documentary feature film. The film is silent and made in black-and-white with some colour sequences in the Kinemacolor additive color process.
The film documents Britain's military preparedness, showing scenes of the army and navy in preparation for war, and the manufacture of munitions. The film was made by the Cinema Committee, comprising Charles Urban, William Jury of Jury's Imperial Pictures and Tommy Welsh of Gaumont, at the behest of the covert British propaganda organisation, the War Propaganda Bureau (also known as Wellington House). It was the first major British official film of World War I.
Production
The film was produced during the Autumn of 1915. The army sections were filmed at Aldershot by Gaumont camera operators in September, showing the training of recruits and culminating in a review of troops by George V on 30 September. The naval scenes were filmed in September and October by Charles Urban, who operated one of the cameras, alongside Teddy Tong, Charlie Weddup and Fred Wilson. The fleet was filmed off Scapa Flow under conditions of great security, as naval officialdom was worried by the film depicting identifiable stretches of coastline. Sequences of the fleet at sea were filmed in Kinemacolor. The section of munitions manufacture used film previously produced by Vickers Ltd, and included scenes showing women munition workers. The film also featured the launch of battleship HMS Revenge and the launch of a submarine.
See also
- List of early color feature films
