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.
Reproduction of a law act of 1917 establishing to prior censorship of films related with WWI.
Commentary on the film and its subject matter (the tribute to Unknown Soldiers lost in World War I).
Notes on 2 documentary films portraying the countrywide tributes to the Unknown Soldiers lost in World War I.
An unfinished stable at the hospital, "will you help the RSPCA to complete it ?". A group of three horses. A wounded horse being attended to at a mobile veterinary section near the front. Wounded hors...
Two girl fitters of Queen Mary's Auxiliary Ambulance Corps doing maintenance work on the wheels and the engine of their ambulance. (Rather staged, the girls are trying very hard not to be camera-consc...
The film is a miscellany of life shooting, related to the first conflict, showing: scenes of provisions using military vehicles with engine or pulled by horses in country and city roads; shootings of ...
In August 1918, Parisians stand in line in front of the Félix Potin grocery store in order to get a few potatoes. On the sixth of the same month, others wait on Rue de Buci for some wine.
Scenes of rural life in Picardie at the beginning of the century: the destruction of shells in open fields, sowing, plowing with a multifurrow plow, harvesting with a sickle, a graduation ceremony, th...