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1917 Maxim machine guns
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0:57Now PlayingDate: 15th March 1917
Location: England
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: The Deadly Maxim
ENGLAND:
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England
Title: Firing 600 shots per minute - Targets representing men in massed formation under heavy fire.
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GV. British soldiers firing Maxim machine guns.
(30ft)
GV. Machine gun bullets exploding amongst model figures on hillside.
(81ft)
Title: Many of the figures did not fall, but were perforated by the bullets.
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SV. pan Model figures on hillside. Man carries model riddled with bullet holes down hillside toward camera.
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Firing 600 shots per minute
Target resemble men in massed formation
Military - Active, Munitions and Armaments
guns, soldiers, training, machine gun, World War I, World War 1, WWI, First World War, The Great War, war,
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