Messter-Woche Nr. 4

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  • Other title(s): Messter Newsreel No. 4
  • Genre: Newsreel
  • Year: 1914
  • Runtime: 00:05:08
  • Description: Credits: Messter Weekly No. 4 (1 m.) 1. Intertitle:: Next to a blown-up railway bridge over the Meuse our forces have constructed a provisional bridge in an astoundingly short space of time, over which the first train is just crossing. Image: People run across the new bridge, followed by a steam engine. (13 m.) 2. Intertitle: Fort Ayvelles, which we have taken. Image: Soldiers run through the entrance of the fort towards the camera. (7 m.) 3. Intertitle: The grave of the commander, who shot himself when he saw that the fort could no longer be held. Image: White wooden cross with inscription: „Here lies the brave commander. He did not wish to survive the fall of the fort entrusted to him. With this wooden cross the German soldier, too (…) this hero to duty...“ (6 m.) 4. Intertitle: View of the fort's plateau. Image: Soldiers carry objects around. (11 m.) 5. Intertitle: In the casements. Image: Soldiers pull wooden beams out of a building. (6 m.) 6. Intertitle: The fort's cannon are loaded. Image: Soldiers loading cannon. (14 m.)
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / World War, 1914-1918 -- France / Germany / Soldiers / Bridges -- War damage / Buildings -- War damage / World War, 1914-1918
  • Provider: Bundesarchiv
  • Rights: Public Domain
  • Production company: Messter Film GmbH (Berlin)
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Language: de

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