In preparion for war, German and French ships and hydroplanes are launched in Wilhelmshaven and Lorient. The war technology is depicted in an objective and proud manner, which today seems in stark con...
The film opens with an unrelated scene of Australian troops exploding a shell or mine in a training exercise. 1st Spahi Cavalry Regiment 'charges' the camera. One of the men demonstrates steadiness by...
A poster lists the various "Electoral Districts in Canada". Polling took place between 1 and 17 December. Men of 7th Brigade, Canadian 3rd Division read the poster. The brigade is 49th (Edmonton) Batt...
I. Columns of British companies march into the city on 18th October. They are Liverpool Irish, otherwise 8th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) of 57th (West Lancashire) Division. The men carry fl...
An honour guard of Infantry marches into position beside the dock, past Roberts' ship, the SS Dunnottar Castle. Roberts, in Field Marshal's dress blue uniform, comes down the gangplank, followed by hi...
(Reel 1) Péronne was captured by Australian 5th Division on 3rd September, but this film concentrates on events behind the lines two weeks later. Wagons, including some field gun limbers and GS wagon...
Melodrama about presumed adultery, jealousy and honour.
The film shows images from Rjukan and the surrounding area. We see narrow roads and sharp curves, the famous waterfall and the power plant, construction and industry, mountain dairy farming and reinde...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Feldflugplatz mit mehreren, nacheinander startenden Doppeldeckern "Albatros C". 1. Zwischentitel: Aufklärer. Bild: Ein Aufklärungsflugzeug "LVG C II"; der Pilot im Flugzeug; der Beobachter steigt e...
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.
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
The farmer's daughter and her young man spend idyllic moments in the countryside, riding in a buggy and then rowing on the lake. The girl plucks a daisy: "He loves me, he loves me not..." but of cours...
Two newsreel items about the First World War with images of the Balkan front and a destroyed Italian city.
A woman, concerned about the continual absences of her husband, commissions a detective to follow him and report back to her. At first glance this appears to be a classic fictional device, all the mor...
Film documenting a tortuous series of cavalry exercises. It includes a harrowing sequence of horses descending steep hills and cliffs and jumping into the water. Film restored in collaboration w...
Suzanne and the prince of Sylvania fall in love with each other, but this is forbidden. Suzanne is thrown out of the house, gives birth to an illegitimate child, goes mad and dies before she can see h...
A melodrama about fratricide and the struggle between two sisters who are each other's opposites. The good sister is declared a madwoman by the bad sister and the child she has of one of the brothers,...
The film has no plot or continuity. Almost all the first reel comes directly from IWM 236 A BOMBING TRIP OVER THE ENEMY LINES, showing Australian aircraft, and IWM 28 WITH THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES IN PAL...
The fight between the German submarine U-139 and the patrol Augusto de Castilho (former trawler converted in warship) in October 14th, 1918. Images taken from the submarine.