Each move in the assault is shown twice, as an animated diagram, then as actuality material. The defence is a thinly-held forward position, a main position, and a redoubt or final position, at about 5...
I. A recently recaptured area. A school class is held in the open air. An officer of 102nd Infantry Regiment gives small gifts to the children. The gifts include small French flags. The children's fac...
(Reel 1) The film opens with unrelated scenes of the Western Front, mainly the Marne and Château-Thierry areas. Then Theodore Roosevelt beside the grave of his son Quentin. Behind-the-lines scenes of...
Winter on the Western Front 1915-1916. Soldiers travel on a light railway; a 6-inch howitzer and 9.2-inch howitzers firing in damp and snow; troops in snow-covered trenches, including one 'over the to...
This episode follows the normal structure of First World War 'battle' pictures. The troops in columns march up to the villages behind the lines. The guns, including a 12-inch railway gun and an 18-pou...
Mr Gompers with two other labour leaders comes up the ladder and onto the quarterdeck of HMS Queen Elizabeth. Admiral Sir David Beatty is there with his staff to shake hands and meet him.The King and ...
The men march in the rain through the streets, led by military bands and with a police escort. The men enter a building with a Union Jack draped over the entrance.The men are shown working on a railwa...
I. 'THE PIGEON AS POSTMAN. Taken up on motor cycle to the trenches the birds except for casualties, never fail to reach "home" behind the lines where the telegraphist sends on the message.' Pigeons ar...