Hiding Monuments (1914-1918)

French soldiers protect buildings and monuments from bombs. France. Opens with shot of monument to Marshal Ney (Michel Ney; soldier in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic armies). Next; shot of a boarded up window of a big building - actually looks like boards are stacked in front of it and then held in place by poles. Soldiers stacking sandbags in front of the recessed windows of another major building. Another scene where sandbags are stacked up in an area behind a fence - maybe covering monuments or statues. Scaffolding erected in front of buildings with sandbags stacked criss-cross up to the second storey. Brief shot of soldiers standing on sandbag steps and passing more sandbags upwards. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collect