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"SONS OF OUR EMPIRE"

« A NOTABLE AVAR FILM. Under an arrangement with tho Ne>v Zealand Government the Y.11.C.A. are to exhibit throughout New Zealand a new war film entitled "Sons of Our Empire," which was specially lakeii under an arrangement with tho British Government. The new film is in ten parts, and takes two hours and a half lo reel off, when exhibited privately yesterday before a gathering which included Her Excellency tho Countess of Liverpool, some Ministers of tho Croivn, many members of Parliament, Government officials, and their .lady friends, only five of the most interesting reels wero shown. It was enough, however, lo show that "Sons of Our Empire" is a living and up-to-date compendium of the war "from our side of tho fence." At the commencement was shown a 'series of views descriptive of Die work of the Naval Air Corps, a wonderful body of men, which has been created since the war began, and is now displaying that mastery in tho air which tho British Navy lias displayed on tho sea. To see a great seaplane being trinxlled out of a huge sV.ed and run down the beach by half a hundred moil, one is struck with its 'ast bulk and apparent v.nwieldincss. See u

"aspiring the clouds" or tracking up a destroyer over tho deep, and it becomes tho acmo of winged grace. Tho seaplane pictures includo a series of viows ol' tho mother ship, from w'hoso roomy deck arose the seaplane, from which was List spotted the German Fleet prior to tho i Battle of Jutland. The audience is token through the process of launching tho sea. plane, its rus'h over the waters, its graceful ascent to tho unstable world above the clouds, then down to the lwsom of Mojbher Ocean and homo again 10 tho mother ship. Tho effect of bomb-drop-ping from a. great height: was also giapiiically shown. Following the eeaplane 6cencs was shown an album of battleships, submarines, and destroyers, and later a panorama of troops off to tho front—Dovons, Bedfords, North Hauls, Scottish, Australians. Then tho picture advances with the troops into tho torn and scarred land of Flanders, oil which the eyes of nil the rorld are scl. JTero again aro the "tanks," the ugly, slow, ponderous land battleships, which liavo done such effective work. Here is "Cremo de Menthe," a familiar old slug, crawling comically through tho narrow streets of a little French town, so big that it fills up the street, and everyone, from tho officers to the French gamins of the gutter, grill as the great slug rolls by—slow, sure, deadly—seemingly as iiumutablo as fate itsoif.

"The Devil's Own" is another tank Moved of the British troops. It lumbers_ into view covered with grinning soldiers, and afterwards does a "national steeplechase" over the battlefield, bucking and sheering liko a "limejuiccr" in a cross-soa, leaning this way or that, sprawling over a shell-hole, bridging a trench, and climbing up from a huge crater. There was never such a seriocomic weapon invented for war as the British tank. After the battle, 6cones showing the big drafts of German prisoners coming into _tho British lines give food (o the imagination, and show the awful effects of the British bombardment. Every foot of the film is intensely interesting, and it should attract large gatherings wherever and whenever it is shown in New Zealand. Pity.- per cent, of the profits made by exhibiting the picture are to go to the Y.JI.C.A. Trench Comforts Fund, 25 per cent, for comforts for soldiers returning to New Zealand in transports, and 25 per cent, is to bo handed to the llayor of the town or city whera the pictu-re is being shown for patriotic funds which have his •recommendation.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3164, 16 August 1917, Page 3

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"SONS OF OUR EMPIRE" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3164, 16 August 1917, Page 3

"SONS OF OUR EMPIRE" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3164, 16 August 1917, Page 3

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