Watch ‘Tell Them of Us’ on Vimeo.

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We are delighted to announce that you can now watch our WW1 film ‘Tell Them of Us’ on Vimeo. It costs as little as £1.00 to view. Click here to go to Vimeo.

Waiting – 1917 (c) Nick Loven

 

Charity Premiere of WW1 Film

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Charity Premiere of the drama-documentary ‘William’s Story’ sequel to the film ‘Tell Them of Us’ which told the WWI story of Crowder brothers.

Tickets now on sale.

All proceeds to the Thimbleby St. Margaret’s Church Restoration Fund.

 

The Trenches 1918

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Two weeks ago we filmed the first part of William Crowder’s first hand account of the German Spring Offensive. On duty in a front line trench and in charge of communications, William was awarded the DSO for his courage in keeping the line open.

Here are some of the screen captures from filming by cinematographer and director, Nick Loven.

Screen Short (c) Nick Loven

Adam Fox as William Crowder Screenshot (c) Nick Loven

Adam Fox, Connah Lilleyman and Tom Lewin (c) Nick Loven

Adam Fox as William Crowder (c) Nick Loven

‘Tell Them of Us’, WW1 Film, is now available on DVD.

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WAG Screen now has a shop where you can purchase our WWI film, Tell Them of Us, set in the homefront in Lincolnshire. Follow this link for the shop.

 

Last Chance to see ‘Tell Them of Us’ WW1 Film

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For the last month ‘Tell Them of Us’ – the untold story of one Lincolnshire family – has been showing in the auditorium screen at The Collection, Lincoln. It has been accompanied by an exhibition of the costumes made for, and the story of, the film.

The last showings of this WW1 commemorative film are on Saturday 6th December 11am and 2pm and Sunday 7th December 11am and 2pm.

We have had many wonderful reviews and here is one:

 

Immersion Cinema

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Immersion cinema is where the audience’s appreciation of a story is heightened by, for example, being in the location where the events played out. Now there is a chance to see Tell Them of Us in one of the locations where the events depicted happened and where we filmed too.The film is about the Crowder family during World War One and is told from the home front. A close friend of the Crowder family, Violet Pearson, worked as a VAD nurse at the Horncastle Red Cross Hospital and, although the film only briefly touches on her work, the fact that the audience will be viewing the film sitting in the ward that so many injured soldiers were nursed, will be a powerful one.

The Charity Premiere of the film will be introduced by the Director, Nick Loven, and Robert Holland, grandson and great nephew of Grace, William and Robert Crowder. It will be held in Stanhope Hall, Horncastle, the former Red Cross Hospital. Funds will go to the restoration of St Margaret’s Church, Thimbleby, which contains the marble memorial to Robert Crowder and the other fallen from the village during the 1914-18 war.

‘Tell Them of Us’ WW1 Film Trailer

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Tell Them of Us – teaser trailer from Nick Loven on Vimeo.

Guests from the Royal Photographic Society

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During the last two film shoots we had few members of the Royal Photographic Society as guest photographers: Stewart Wall, Mark Graham, Jazz Hayer and David Jones. They created some memorable images.

Graham (c) Stewart Wall

Bryony Roberts (c) Mark Graham

Jess (c) Stewart Wall

Bryony Roberts (c) Mark Graham

Bryon Roberts (c) Jazz Hayer

(c) David Jones

Nick Loven by (c) Jazz Hayer

Sophie halse (c) David Jones

Bryony Roberts (c) David Jones

(c) Stewart Wall

(c) Stewart Wall

Last Minute!

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Just as we were about to film Thimbleby village celebrating the moment of the Armistice, with all cast in place and costuming done, our researcher chanced upon an article in a 1917 edition of the Horncastle News about Walter Barlow. Walter was the son of John and Elizabeth Barlow, Thimbleby’s baker and shopkeeper. We knew that Walter had survived the war, and had taken over Robert Crowder’s role as Thimbleby church organist, but we knew little else. However, the newspaper article shed light on his story and caused a last minute flurry of casting.  Walter had been severely injured, spending months in hospital, and probably never returned to the front. So we quickly cast an actor to play Walter and borrowed vintage crutches from the Red Cross. You can just pick out Walter in the group scene below and beneath that a transcription of the Horncatle News article which includes a letter from Walter describing the battle in which he was injured.

Photo by Stewart Wall. Armistice street scene, Thimbleby

Article from Horncastle News, September 1917 :

Pte. W Barlow, Thimbleby

Pte. Walter Barlow, Lincolnshire Regiment, son of Mr Barlow, baker, Thimbleby, has been seriously injured in the left leg, and is now in Warrington Hospital. Prior to enlisting in March last year he worked for his father, and after training was sent to France, but returned soon after suffering from a bad knee. He returned to France in November, and had many exciting experiences, but none more than on April 28th, when he was wounded, and which he relates in the following letter: “We were given our orders to advance 1,000 yards, which meant we should have too take the village and 500 yards beyond that. Owing to the enemy’s heavy machine gun fire we were to make little progress, only getting three hundred yards, when we had to dig ourselves in. We had had this position about three hours when the enemy counter attacked us heavily, and managed to surround us. They took quite a lot of our men prisoners. I tried, like a lot of our boys, to get back to our lines. I ran like a hare, but not too far, for a bullet hit me in the leg, soon steadying me, and I was obliged to drop. By this time the Boches had got up to me. They said, in fairly good English ‘Would I surrender’. I knew if I did not say ‘Yes’, they would kill me, so then they told me to go to the village they had occupied. I said I would, but soon found that I couldn’t as it was too much for me as I was quite helpless in my leg. I managed, after a struggle, in rolling into a shell hole, and when I saw any Boches coming past me I lay as though I was dead, for I quite expected they would finish me off all together if they saw I couldn’t walk. So I lay in that shell hole for 12 hours, I was hit at 10 o’clock in the morning and it was ten at night before I dare make any attempt to get back to our lines. I really don’t know how I managed to get back, for shells were bursting all around me, independent of me being unable to walk. Anyhow, I made my mind up to try and get back somehow. It took me nearly two hours trying to get out of that shell hole. After strenuous efforts I managed to succeed, but, oh, what a job, for the pain it caused me was awful. I really thought I would have to give it up as a bad job, then something in me said “Try again”, and so I tried and, thank god, I did it. How long it took me in getting back to our trenches I don’t know, but it must have taken me a long while for I had to trail myself on my body and right leg for 300 yards. When at last I did manage to draw the attention of some stretcher bearers who were about they soon had me on a stretcher down to the dressing station.I shall never forget what I went through that day, 28th April.