Aerial sequence shot from an airship of the U-boats arriving off Harwich - Admiralty R and Modified R Class destroyers lead in Kreuzer (large) and Mittel (medium displacement) U-boats. Medium close-up...
A pan over the valley with Asiago village in the distance. A British lorry convoy comes up a hairpin track to the top of a mountain ridge. Asiago, filmed from the British lines across the valley. Brit...
The film depends for its effect on stop-action camera tricks. It opens with 'President Kruger' of the Transvaal Republic gloating over a bust of himself. Beside him, a large placard reads "On Majuba D...
One of the officers plays briefly outdoors with a parrot on its perch. Two officers with a theodolite on a tripod survey the area. Indoors a RNVR lieutenant makes fine adjustments to a set of scales b...
(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...
A New Army battalion of Royal Welch Fusiliers, 38th (Welsh) Division (attached to the Guards Division for training) arrives by bus and gets out in the Guards area. Grenadier Guards in the rubble of Ep...
The film takes a typical case, "John Brown", a clerk aged 30, single with one dependent (a sister ?) living in his own house in Catford in the suburbs of London. On the outbreak of war he attested. Af...
The film consists of stockshots and patriotic verse in Victorian style. It opens with Trafalgar Square on Trafalgar Day, 21st October: Nelson's column has floral wreaths, and there is a close-up of a ...