The Invention Department tests Gabriel Voisin's inflatable hangar. Inflatable in less than one minute, it is submitted to military authority for use by soldiers. When inflated, a huge tarpaulin connec...
In 1915, during World War I, Tsar Nicolas II inspects his troops, then the cavalry marches past.
Daily life in a camp of Algerian spahis at the mouth of the Yser River: men resting, caring for horses, panorama of tents, portraits of Goumiers, dances, charge in the dunes and along the seaside, equ...
During World War I, soldiers transport 75 mm field guns, towed by horses across the countryside, then begin shooting.
A man is drawing Uncle Sam sitting on a pile of bags filled with dollar bills. Little by little, modeling clay starts to replace the drawing. Dark clouds form near him and take the shape of an intimid...
In Blérancourt, a little town in Aisne where the Civil Security has been set up on the ruins of the chateau, American women raise the American flag. Mr. Fernand David, the Minister of Agriculture, an...
Jules-Louis Breton and the members of the Invention Department Studies and Technical Experiments Section attend flame-thrower tests in a field and in a trench.
A plane drops bombs from different altitudes to study the trajectory of the projectiles and calculate the freefall time.
The battle of Zborov: Three soldiers in the trench, Tomeš in the middle.
The battle of Zborov: A soldier gives to smell a rotten can to his sleeping friend.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers in the trench with stuffy noses. One of them holds a rotten can.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers sit in the trench.
The batttle of Zborov: A board with the slogan in Austrian trenches - "Wer diese Stellungen erstürmt vernichtet Österreich."/ "A conqueror of this position will defeat Austria".
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers hidden in the trench.
An office with two sitting Russian generals (on the left Rudolf Medek - author of the synopsis). Tomeš registers himself as a volunteer.
A documentary part: First days of the independent Czechoslovak Republic - František Udržal speaks to the gathering of people in front of the monument of Jan Hus.
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...