Jean and Suzette, two orphans, are raised by the inn-keeper Frantz Hobscher who mistreats them. When World War I is declared, the imperial authorities order Hobscher to trick spies into thinking he's ...
I. 'BRITISH IN BETHLEHEM. Our troops headed by a band march into the Historical City of Bethlehem.' Locals look on as troops march through square.II. 'M. CLEMENCEAU IN ALSACE. The French War Minister ...
The reconstruction of a viaduc between France and Germany, in Alsace.
The film is in fragments of a few seconds' duration. Apart from numerous items from the French sector of the Western Front and the Italian Front, there are three main themes. One is French forces in n...
Ceremony presided by General Leclerc in Strasbourg, Alsace, to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the city's liberation.
I. A camp for Chasseurs Alpins in hill country, possibly the Vosges area. The camp has permanent dugouts in a hillside, while 75mm guns and limbers are being camouflaged with trees and matting. The fi...
II. French newsreel item on German prisoners of war at Saint-Dizier, France, September 1917.Some of the prisoners work in a wood cutting timber and piling up sticks. Others dig up stones for roadfill....
One of the men demonstrates how to fit on a pair of skis. The group of Chasseurs Alpins skis from one side of a valley to the other and a few members demonstrate ski-jumping over a low jump, the major...
Screenshot from "Guerre 1914-1915. Le General Joffre en Alsace"
0527 - Beaucourt - Prisoner of War Camp Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.