I. (Reel 1) The Western Front 1916, re-edited sections of IWM 116 BATTLE OF THE ANCRE, using the same scenes and captions as the original, but not in the same order. This covers events in the middle p...
A schoolmaster drives a tram as a part-time job. Other men board lorries taking them to work part-time on farms on Sundays. They are "of all classes, from lawyers to navvies". People without local all...
The film stresses the need for part-time work to win the war. A schoolmaster drives a tram. Ladies make bandages, limb supports and other hospital items. Carpenters make crutches. Elderly part-time wo...
Several shots of pigs feeding from troughs (some but not all of these shots are used in IWM 447B). Various shots of people making bandages, artificial limbs and crutches (most material used in IWM 447...
The funeral of a nurse killed when one of the British military hospitals in France was bombed (deliberately, according to the film) by the Germans in their March offensive. The caption style which is ...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
The film opens with a German jackboot across the map of Alsace-Lorraine. An old couple in Alsatian costume read the news of the annexation and bemoan their fate while German officers strut outside the...
The young woman leaves her terraced house (section tinted blue) at 5am and takes the train to the factory (tinting ends). In the locker room she and the others change into overalls and boots, and cloc...
Hammering nails into flagpole of Czech legion and ceremonial blessing of the flag (28th September 1914) in Kiev.
Ceremonial blessing of the flag (28th September 1914) of Czech legion in Kiev.
Wide shot of an office. Standing from left to right are: Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), an Austrian colonel (actor: Jaroslav Marvan), a military guard, Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír ...
Wide shot of an officer. Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is standing on the left. Dr. (actor: František Smolík) is standing behind a desk on the right with his back to Rjepkin. An Aust...
Wide shot of a corridor. Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič) is standing on the right with an arm in a cast and bandaged eyes. Infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk) is standing next...
First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František Kreuzmann) is lying on a hospital bed with his leg in a cast and smoking. An Austrian officer is sitting to the right of him and peeling something. In the ba...
B.T., Messters Kriegskinos, Der Kinematograph, 437, (1915), S. 19. Meldung, dass die Firma Messter die Erlaubnis bekommen habe, regelmäßig an der Westfront Filmaufnahmen zu machen.
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...