Aboard a sailboat in the Toulon harbor, the Invention Department carries out underwater listening experiments directed by Jean Perrin.
France in arms : How a citizen becomes a soldier: clothing, physical training, peeling potatoes, mess and military training. Men write "Vive la France" (Long Live France) with their bodies on the floo...
Emperor Nicolas II and the Hereditary Grand Duke salute the Russian troops who then perform gymnastic tricks, a tug-of-war, and sack race. His Majesty Nicolas II, accompanied by an archbishop, then vi...
During the First World War, Vickers manufactured munitions and war materials needed for combat. In the workshops, shrapnel and shells are manufactured by workers, while women and young girls assemble ...
French, Serbian, and Greek troops advance against Bulgarian troops in Macedonia in September 1918: the effects of artillery shots, columns of captured prisoners and equipment, views of Prilep, moving ...
Soldiers are taught to use the Lewis Machine Gun, a fixed mount weapon, during military training using pictures.
Rushes showing the terrain's condition after the March 1918 German offensive: the devastated hill of Mont Renaud, destroyed wayside cross, a deserted village. George Clemenceau's visit to the Monchy-H...
Placing flowers at the cenotaph. Marshals Joffre and Foch at the Porte Maillot in Paris. Parade of French generals on horseback and soldiers on foot, filmed from the ground and the top of the Arc de t...
An Austrian soldier in underwear, three Russian soldiers around him.
Reunion of families after war. In the middle stand Tomeš, Janda and Bárta in uniforms of volunteers. Women sit behind and sons talk with fathers.
Volunteer Bárta (laborer) encounters his wife.
Volunteer Janda (smith) in Italian uniform encounters his family after the end of the war.
Janda´s son in the apron and volunteer Janda in Italian uniform.
From the left: Volunteer Bárta in French uniform, volunteer Janda in Italian uniform.
Tomeš encounters his wife and son after the return from the war. Tomeš hugs his son. His wife stands nearby and smiles at Janda and Bárta.
From the left: Tomeš (Russian uniform), Bárta (French uniform) and Janda (Italian uniform). Volunteers rest during their coming home.
O. Verf.. "Kino und Schule." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,6 (1913/1914): 150. Der Kinoausschuss für Berliner Schulen habe seine Arbeit aufgenommen und veranstal...
Will Scheller, Über den Einfluss des Krieges auf die Filmkunst in Deutschland, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV,10, (1914/1915), S. 197-200. Der Krieg habe die Film...
R. Genenncher, Der Film als Agitationsmittel, Der Kinematograph, 628, (1919), S. 7-8. Der Gebrauch des Films zur Propagierung politischer Ansichten sei an und für sich eine Vergewaltigung der Kunst. ...