The American Historical Review, . Distributed by Somme Productions. In 1916, a British filmmaker named Geoffrey Mallins made and released a one-hour film of life in the British trenches entitled The Battle of the Somme.
Morale is high.
The last of these dissolves into live action and color. The final advance in The Trench is also consistent with the Mallins's depiction of the event, although we are now privy to both the piercing green of the grass and the whistle of bullets as the line of troops moves forward. Although making his directoral debut, novelist and screenwriter Boyd is no stranger to the representation of the Great War. 3 Boyd is unflinchingly realistic in imagining the conversation of these soldiers. Some try to seem tougher than they really are, others to conceal their evident virginity.