ANZACS AT GALLIPOLI.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 October 1916, Page 4

ANZACS AT GALLIPOLI.

SIIOWN ON Tlffi PICTURE SCREE*.

The announcement that the Empire Theatre would present the special war pictures, appertaining to Gallipoll', and obtained by Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the war correspondent, under considerable difficulties, was responsible for a packed house at this popular place of amusement last night. In half-an-hour, the audience was enabled to grasp the superhuman effort on the black peninsula of Oallipoli to which so many of New Zealand's and Australia's lads paid willing tribute. The film is quite a realistic conception of what wa? done on the peninsula which foi time immemorial will be associated with the name of "Anzac," the men who made history on the brown hillsides, the sandy beach, and in the rugged ravines. There have been photographs in the papers, but New Plymouth people have seen few such as were projected on tbje screen at the theatre last night,

The first portion of the picture shows the "River Clyde," the steamer that was deliberately run ashore, crammed with men. This was the modern replica of the ancient Trojan horse. The discmbarkinent, the landing at Suvla in barges, the landing of mules were life-like. The slinging of the hardworked (eventually) mules from the ship to the barge was a striking incident; the General Staff's headquarters in Shrapnel fiully, fleneral Birdwood and (staff at mess, in the trendies, and collecting kitbags after a charge followed each other in rapid suecession. The scenes of life in 1915 on Imbos Island wore poignant, in so far that the watcher, in one moment's reflection, wonders how many of the faces there depicted will ever return. A fine unit of the picture is that of the Amta>! Beach, at Suvla. Shrapnel Gully, Walker's Ridge, and Lonesome Pine all are shown in much detail, and one of the best of the cinemas is that the whole portrays British troops repulsing an enemy attack. The work of the riflemen in the trenches, their ignorance (ot contempt) of danger, their eagerness, and the rapidity of their actions, ire all vividly shown. The pictures should prove a realisation to all of what th» Anzaes passed through, and of what unknown dangers they faced. It is a magnificent film, splendidly projected, and should be witnessed by everyone, if only for its historical, and not 3enti« mental, value.'

In addition to the feature item, tho programme comprised one of the latest topical war gazettes, a couple of really rippling-with-fun comedies, a capital drama, and a fine scenic. This programme . will be screened again at a special matinee commencing at 2.50 today, and again at the performance, thi* evening. It is one that should be seen by everybody.