Limbered 77mm field guns pass at the trot, then halt for the crews to dismount. The caption points out that German NCOs lead each column. A posed group of senior officers, including one German in Turk...
The brigade, raised in Camberwell, parades through the streets on its way to join 33rd Division at Bulford. The streets are lined with people as the limbers move past.
Newsreel item on CLVI Briga...
The aircraft, a Rumpler Taube reconnaissance plane, has been brought down virtually intact, and lies guarded by French soldiers in the middle of a square. Curious Greek civilians surround it.
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The film starts with the four-man aircraft crew posed at the water's side in Kristianiafjord, with the two pilots, Captain S D Scott and Major C J Galpin, in the centre. Their flying-boat, a Felixstow...
The ship's hull, described as a "USA Mammoth Warship", comes down the slipway and into the water. It has yet to be fitted out (see notes).
Newsreel item on a launch at the New York Navy Yard, Bro...
Spectators watch as engineers complete the fitting of the tank's tracks for its rough ground tests. It drives up and down slopes, over frozen puddles, and across railway lines. Then, with the tracks a...
Over the rough ground of the foothills the British drive their tanks, the Light Tank Mark IIB. In close-up, the turret of one tank opens and the commander (wearing a special tanker's helmet) emerges t...
A line of Vickers Medium Mark I tanks, almost wheel-to-wheel, "greatly improved and much speedier than those in the Great War". A Dragon tows an 18-pounder Mark IV field gun along a road. At a field b...
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".
Aubinger, Josef: „Die Kinematographie in Kriegszeiten.“ Der Kinematograph 398 (1914): 3-5. Artikel, der die mögliche Zukunft des Kinowesens im Krieg beschreibt. Die wirtschaftliche Lage der Kinos...
Presse-Stimmen über das Filmwerk Tirol in Waffen, Das Lichtbildtheater, 6.Jg., Nr.10, (1914).
O.Th. Stein, Ausländerei im Film, Film und Lichtbild, 4, (1914), S. 50-52. Der Artikel beklagt die herausragende Stellung französischer Firmen, auch bei der Erstellung von Aufnahmen, die deutsche Na...