(Reel 1) Text of Admiral Beatty's message to the Empire. Beatty's flag (Vice-Admiral's) is broken out, and the Grand Fleet puts to sea: US battleships of 6th Battle Squadron in line astern; medium sho...
I. Long shot across anchorage at Scapa at sunset - afterpart of a battleship, showing X and Y turrets, at frame right, and starboard profile of Arethusa Class (?) cruiser.II. Medium shot of Admiralty ...
I. 'Nash Fish' (hydrophone) is winched up and swung over the side of a PC boat. II. Medium shot from an airship holding station off the starboard quarter, and slowly coming abeam of USS Birmingham. Ae...
The film describes the achievements of "the Cavalry of the Clouds". It starts with an RAF squadron in France in 1918 (actually 84 Squadron at Bertangles) being briefed and taking off in their SE5as. T...
Drifters take on provisions from depot vessel. Commander Lyne at work in his office. Drifters leave port - medium close-up of minesweeping drifter Drummer Boy, (GY.964). ML.18 approaches, and Commande...
The marines, part of the Japanese destroyer flotilla assisting in anti-submarine patrols in the Mediterranean, are rowed ashore from their ship. There are a number of cargo vessels at anchor but no wa...
The Stock Exchange in London "closes its doors" in 1914 - a crowd is clustered around it. "Germany mobilises," a pre-war German training exercise with the troops in Prussian blue, not field grey: a 77...
I. Medium shot, closing on the starboard quarter of an Italian 19 ton, Type 'B' MAS underway at speed, and a passing shot of MAS flotilla steaming in line, the camera vessel proceeding on an opposite ...