The Tanks of Amiens (Victory 1918),
2018
Documentary short
Towards the end of the Great War, the arrival of the first British tanks changed the course of the conflict.
The aim was to communicate what the German soldiers may have experienced when these new machines arrived on the battleground. To illustrate their importance, we obtained permission from the Imperial War Museum in London to use rare footage of the tanks in action. These period images, captured during troop training exercises in southern England as well as during their transit to the front, are rare and rather interesting.

Thanks to state-of-the-art digital imaging, we were able to adapt these sequences to successfully create a short film. In order to respect the historical nature of the source material, we agreed with the Museum in London to also present a video exposé explaining how we had upgraded and adapted these shots to tell the story convincingly.
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Video 4k, 5 minutes
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Historical subject

Videos

Main collaborators

Research and scriptwriting
Philippe Baylaucq

Historians of the First World War
Tim Cook
J.L Granatstein

Creative Development Specialist Marie-Louise Deruaz

Collections Specialist
Weapons and Technologies
Eric Fernberg

Research
Pierre Marier

Sound design
Sylvain Bellemare

Line producer
Isabelle Limoge

Executive Producer
René Chénier

The Tanks of Amiens (Victory 1918),
2018
Writer Director
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada, on the occasion of the centenary of the armistice in Europe.

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