
Footage of soldiers behind the lines and under fire during the battle of the Ancre, including images of tanks on the move..
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There are films you watch; then there are celluloid wounds you cauterise into memory. The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks belongs to the latter tribe—an artefact so soaked in potassium bromide and frontline methane that the projector seems to exhale trench breath across the auditorium. When the BFI’...

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" There are films you watch; then there are celluloid wounds you cauterise into memory. The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks belongs to the latter tribe—an artefact so soaked in potassium bromide and frontline methane that the projector seems to exhale trench breath across the auditorium. When the BFI’s 2K scan first rolled at the Cinémathèque in Paris, a stunned hush snapped the air like frost. We were witnessing November 1916’s mud-maimed Somme salient, resurrected in granular..."


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