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Tommy's Tinder Box: Chipping Flints Which are Used As a Substitute for Matches in the rain-soaked Trenches (Original title)
Date: March 1915 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom



Shotlist: Main title. A workman seated at a stool chopping flints on his knee (59). "Flint, steel and tinder". The man is then seen packing flints, together with tinder into tin boxes (87); a soldier uses one of the tinder box kits to light his cigarette (118ft).

Genres:
Newsreel, War

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Releases
Date: March 1915Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SilentLength: 118 Feet
Date: January 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SilentDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (1)
Production Company: Pathé Frères Cinema