During the war, from 1914 to 1918, a cable-operated funicular railway built by the company Etcheverry is loaded with boxes of ammunition and tested in the open countryside at ground level and over wat...
In Vincennes, the members of the Studies and Technical Experiments section of the Invention Department attend the test destruction of barbed-wire networks by a Latil tractor. In a meadow on the outski...
An account of the Battle of Verdun through a montage of archive images, to the glory of the soldiers.
Raymond Poincaré visits Russia from July 13 to 23, 1914. Arriving in a yacht, the Tsar and Raymond Poincaré inspect the troops, greet the Empress, then attend a parade of artillery, Cossacks, and th...
In 1921, following the World War I armistice, the Allies occupy a section of German territory in order to obtain war reparations. The French troops are situated in the Rhenish territory, whose first F...
In 1917, in Paris, the sidewalks in front of the movie theaters are packed. On a quieter street, two soldiers from the colonial forces negotiate with a prostitute in front of a brothel.
In 1917, during World War I, street vendors sell the contents of their carts in the streets of Paris.
On July 4, 1920, at Iéna Square in Paris, officials place flowers a the foot of Washington's statue then give speeches. Next, troops march down President Wilson Avenue and war orphans parade down Cha...
Still from "Gebrochene Schwingen"
Lissy Arna, Luis Trenker
Fritz Arno Wagner, Fritz Métain (links), G.W. Pabst (Mitte), André Saint-Germain (1.v.r.) (Dreharbeiten)
Still from "Die Strafgefangene Nr. 63. Unschuldig verurteilt"
Still from "Dämonit"
Paul Wegener
Still with Carl Clewing (front, on the left)
Paul Kronegg, Traute Carlsen, Franz Herterich (from left to right)
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. ...