After five years of war and hardship, young people need a distraction from the dreary atmosphere of the devastated villages. In Aisne, the reconstruction is slow. The American Committee decides to adv...
In front of Landricourt's temporary church, a crowd attends the baptism of a bell that will replace the one destroyed during WWI. The new bell was donated by the Poetry Society of America in memory of...
In June 1919 at the Mailly military camp, tanks carry out traction tests on rough terrain while Marshal Pétain looks on.
Lieutenant Lender and Paul Heldelberg present the "Piloteur" to the Invention Department's Technical Aeronautic Committee. Using this device, which is anchored to the ground, student pilots can learn...
In a field, soldiers, officers, civilians, and Jules-Louis Breton, members of the Invention Department Committee, study different types of machine guns designed to be fired at tanks.
The Higher Invention Committee examines the Chilowsky shrapnel to increase the power of projectiles.
A group of officers and civilians attends the assembly and test-firing of the 240mm Trench Mortar.
The department of inventions, studies, and technical experiments on powders and explosives carries out test explosions off Toulon. The technical and scientific team prepares the experiment aboard a bo...
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.
Mobilization in Great Britain. Ceremonial march of British military band in traditional fur hats.
Mobilization in Germany: Train with military equipment rides on front.
Czechoslovak volunteers are welcome in Chicago expants living in the USA.
A general view of the events in front of the snow-covered railway station in Irkutsk.
Smoking soldier at the door wagon with the inscription "Gunsmith wokshop, 3rd Regiment."
Technical troops maintained in good repair railway tracks - covering the underside of rails.
Staat und Kino, Der Kinematograph, 514, (1916), S. 11-12. Erörterung der Idee, der Staat könne die Filmproduktion in seine Hände nehmen. Als Beispiel wird die Eisenbahn genommen, die auch zunächst...
Ludwig Brauner, Die kommende Geschmackswandlung, Der Kinematograph, 593, (1918), S. 15-16. Erörterung des Publikumsgeschmacks. Gegenwärtig sei vor allem Ablenkung vom Kriegsalltag gefragt, jedoch li...
"'Um das grosse Erbe'. Aufhebung eines Filmverbots", Der Kinematograph, 549, (1917), S. 11-14.
Universum Filmverleih, Söhne des Volkes, Der Kinematograph, 620, (1918), S. 3. "Der bisher unter dem Titel 'König des Lichts' angekündigte Film...der neue Film für die neue Zeit"
Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 550, (1917), S. 15-17. Rezension aktueller Filme. Interessant ist, dass die russische Gesellschaft filmisch thematisiert wird. Karl Schneider,...
Arthur Loening, Ein Friedensfilm, Lichtbildbühne, 50, (1918), S. 40 & 56. Der Film greife die aktuelle Sehnsucht nach Frieden auf. Wie aber der Westfälische Frieden einen Machtzuwachs für Frankreic...
Deutsche Lichtbild Gesellschaft e.V., Der Friedensreiter, Der Kinematograph, 618, (1918), S.22-23.
Der deutsche Film für das Ausland, Der Kinematograph, 620, (1918). Es sei Aufgabe der deutschen Filmindustrie, den negativen Vorstellungen über Deutschland, die im Ausland im Krieg verbreitet worden...