The film uses a mixture of line drawings, animation, and actuality material. The exercise is for a Vickers machine gun section of gunner, loader, and two carriers, under the instruction of a lieutenan...
Unrelated scenes with no continuity or storyline, mainly taken from the GERMAN OFFENSIVE series of Spring 1918, showing the British sector of the Western Front between March and April 1918. An additio...
The men, from various regiments, all go into a building marked "Entrance for Troops for Dispersal". They are checked off against a list, each handed their discharge papers (?) and issued with civilian...
I. The first reel shows men of the Indian Corps (including British soldiers) in France in January 1916. It is taken unaltered, in a slightly re-edited form, from IWM 202 INDIAN TROOPS AT THE FRONT. II...
(Reel 1) A working class back street slum, with the men at war and the women largely unable to cope with growing children. Lizzie has a small baby that her husband Jim, a corporal serving in France, h...
An actress "Britannia" draws aside a curtain over a screen, flanked by silhouettes of two British soldiers. On the screen appears a genuine scene of refugees fleeing out of Belgium in 1914, followed b...
Very short film showing the front of the Ministry of Food building in London, probably spring 1918.
High-angle medium shot from cliffs overlooking the bay to starboard bow of War-Knight as she lies awash in slight sea - waves run over the focsle well deck. Similar shot from higher viewpoint - an ova...
Exterior view of a train. Six Russian soldiers (prisoners of war) with Asian features are sitting or standing in the train's open door. Some of the soldiers are holding bread in their hands and all ar...
Wide shot of a café filled with Austrian officers. Some are sitting at tables and others are standing in the background, most of them hold glasses in their hands. Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandl...
Wide shot of an office. Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) in the uniform of an Austrian officer sits at a desk and gazes at the nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), who is standing on the...
Medium shot of an Austrian soldier standing with an Austrian colonel (Jaroslav Marvan), Dr. Šrámek (František Smolík), and Lieutenant Rjepkin (Vladimír Borský). The soldier is pointing his bayon...
Wide shots of an office. A group of seven Austrian officers (fifth from left is actor Jaroslav Marvan) stand at the door and look at Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), who is standing behind a ...
Wide shot of a hospital room with a group of standing patients and three military privates. One of the privates, infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk), stands in the middle and conducts as th...
Wide shot of a church interior that has been converted into a military hospital. Wounded soldiers sit or lie on hospital beds lined up along the walls. Other patients sit at the two tables standing in...
Wide shot of a hospital room where doctors are making rounds. On the left are tables with bread and carafes of water. Chairs are standing around the tables. Five doctors stand in the middle of the roo...
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...