In 1919, following bombings of World War I, the town Arras is in ruins. The town hall and the belfry are destroyed, and homes have lost their facades or been reduced to piles of rocks. In the streets ...
During the First World War, near Château Thierry, the french and british armies are fighting against the ennemy. Wounded German soldiers are taken prisoners, a truck carries a 305 mm tank and a hot-a...
This documentary celebrates the return of the Italian soldiers from the French front and shows the welcome given by the authorities (among them: the major of Torino, the Princess Laetitia of Savoia, t...
Artillery tests at the Campo Militare of San Maurizio (San Maurizio Canavese, Torino): howitzers and mortars charging, pointing and firing.
Cavalry manoeuvres held on July 27th, 1912, by the Ticino river, in front of the Count of Torino: descent to the Ticino river, pontoon boats transportation, river crossing on horses. This event is do...
The animals used to live in peace in Animalopolis, until ambition and pride led them to the war. It is an original apologue on the foolishness of war, transposed in an imaginary world of animals actin...
The film most possibly shows Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867-1929), who later became Reichskanzler. Servants and curious onlookers in front of Schloss Buchau await the heir to the throne of Baden, wh...
Animation movie showing puppets of the plush toy company Steiff. A boy wearing a sailor suit plays with soldier puppets and falls asleep. In his dream, the puppets come to life.
From the left: Tomeš (Russian uniform), Bárta (French uniform) and Janda (Italian uniform).
American soldiers sent to France march with the American flags in the streets of Paris.
Mobilization in Germany. German soldiers wave from the windows of the train before leaving for the front.
Czechoslovak volunteers on a small station in Siberia.
Czechoslovak volunteers relax - a run competition.
Technical troops maintained in good repair railway tracks - covering the underside of rails.
A monument with a stone lion - a symbol of Czech statehood- on the grave of fallen volunteers.
Welcome of the President T.G. Masaryk after his arrival in the country. On the monument of Jan Hus is a banner with the slogan "People of Jan Hus".
Kurbelmann im Kriegsdienst, Der Kinematograph, 436, (1915), S. 21-24. Aus der Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung zitierter Bericht über die Erlebnisse eines Kriegsfilmers.
Häfker, Hermann. "Sind die 'kleinen' Kinotheater der Reform schädlich?" Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 58-60. Häfker geht davon aus, dass die ...
Nordisk Films GmbH, Jede Woche neue Kriegs-Aufnahmen, Der Kinematograph 406, (1914), S. 3. "Jede Woche abwechselnd neue Kriegsaufnahmen vom Westen und Osten (eigene Expeditionen)".
E. Osten, Kinematographie des Krieges, Erste Internationale Filmzeitung, 9.Jg., Nr.21, (1915), S. 16-18. Bericht über den Einsatz aus dem Flugzeug aufgenommener Filme zur Aufklärung feindlicher Stel...
Eiko Film. „"Eiko-Woche“ ist die beste Kriegsberichterstattung" Der Kinematograph 404 (1914): 1.
Rundschau, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV,1, (1914/1915), S. 34-41. Berichte über Firmen, die mit Pathé Frères in Verbindung stünden und deshalb boykottiert we...