Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
"The Retreat From Ghent - Belgian cavalry and artillery falling back on Bruges".
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
From private wedding festivities at a wooden villa in the city of Fredikstad.
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
Emperor Wilhelm II and empress Victoria of Germany on horses, escorted by horsemen, on their way to a parade at the Tempelhoferfeld in Berlin.
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.
Crime drama about the rivalry between two men regarding a new invention and a cute girl.