German naval officers, sailors and some soldiers wander through the streets of Ostend. A tram passes, pulling a line of freight carriages. At a tram stop a marching band leads a group of soldiers on b...
All the competitors wear athletics kit and the stadium is quite full. There is a flat race, a pole vault, and a hurdling race. The teams parade around the ground led by a military band. More sports in...
A group of children, under the direction of two or three adults. Each takes a wicker basket and picks the blackberries from nearby bushes. One of the adults stands by a grocer's van with a Ministry of...
The Manunal was a covering mat or carpet for the Kaa'ba outside the Great Mosque at Mecca. Very highly decorated, a new one was made in Cairo each year and transported in ceremonial procession to Port...
(Reel 7) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Men of V Corps unload meat from wagons. A butcher of 16th (Irish) Division cuts up the meat. Various types of supplies are moved from rail trucks and loaded...
(Reel 9) The episode starts with 'Justice'. The tank race and demonstration of a tank climbing over a cottage arranged for George V's visit to France in July 1917. Post-war tests of Mark V Star tanks....
(Reel 11) The film-makers state "We think it is well that we should have been given an opportunity in this episode to show you these terrible fields that were trampled by our deathless allies in their...
(Reel 13) After the opening with 'Justice', the episode consists entirely of unrelated scenes of the Western Front. Scottish troops in long-shot carrying barbed wire. The officer of a tunnelling compa...
O. Verf.. "Kino-Kritik." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 68-69. Obwohl immer wieder Forderungen nach der Hebung des Niveaus im Kino laut würden, ...
Egon Jacobsohn, Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 652, (1919), S. 21. "Die Welt, der große Kuppler" wird als kitschig und misslungen bewertet, ebenso "Die Postanweisung". "Ich...
F. Felix, Krieg den Kriegsdramen, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV, 4/5, (1914/1915), S. 91-93. Polemik gegen die Verarbeitung der Kriegsereignisse im Film und gegen...