A Master Move

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A Master Move

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Details

Location

Unknown

Year

circa 1922

Date

circa 1922

Length

38sec

Audio

silent

Format

35mm, film, intertitles

black and white

Source

British Pathe

Courtesy

British Pathé

Rights Holder

British Pathé

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Description

Michael Collins secretly brings troops by sea and succeeds in turning rebels flank. On 7 August 1922, directed and planned by General Emmet Dalton, the ´Arvonia´ brought Free State troops to the heart of Irregular territory and landed them close to Cork City at Passage West. Republican resistance quickly collapsed. Collins arrived soon after (given the credit by Pathe Gazette) but was killed later in the month at Beal na Blath.

Notes

This footage also appears in the item 'First National Transport lands Dublin Guards on the Western Front'. This item was probably part of a compilation covering events of the First World War but made after the war was over. Although the intertitle for 'First National Transport' claims that the footage shows troops on the Western Front at the start of the Big Push, the footage is actually of the Irish Army in the 1920s and likely to be accurately depicted in this item about Michael Collins' Free State troops. Although inaccurate descriptions of footage in the newsreels is problematic for contemporary researchers, the use of library footage was standard practice within the newsreel industry. Cinema newsreel audiences were less sophisticated in their anaylsis of on screen news than modern viewers and often accepted inaccurate footage as 'the real thing'.

Shot List

'Ireland. A Master Move. Michael Collins secretly brings troops by sea and succeeds in turning rebels flank. Pathe Gazette.' View of soldiers leaving a ship. General view of rows of soldiers marching with rifle resting on shoulder and carrying kit bags.

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