A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
Four reels of very jumbled material, mainly out-of-focus or of poor quality. The first reel is mainly of fragments from the Western Front 1916-1918 taken by British official cameramen, the remainder f...
The film appears to be of the intervention in North Russia, but varies in quality from slightly out of focus to completely blurred.
Blurred and unviewable film of the British intervention in Nort...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
View of a restaurant filled with guests, primarily Austrian officers. Nurse Mathilde (actor: Adina Mandlová) is sitting in the centre background and behind her are seated musicians playing instrument...
Medium shot of an Austrian soldier, Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and other doctors standing by a desk in an office.
Wide shot of an Austrian soldier, Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and other doctors standing by a desk in an office.
Medium shot of two nurses. Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) is holding a wash basin with a sponge and Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) is washing the face of a lying patient. In the backgro...
Wide shot of a café. Austrian officers sit around tables on the right and left (second from left is actor Jaroslav Marvan). Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) is standing next to the table on t...
View of a hospital room. Infantryman Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is lying on a bed with a bandaged neck and closed eyes. Leaning over him to the left is infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Piš...
In the foreground, Lieutenant Rjepkin is lying on a hospital bed. Two doctors and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) are standing over him. Dr. Klíma (actor: Karel Veverka) has a stethoscope i...
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) in civilian clothing and Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) in an officer's uniform. They are standing in a corridor.
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. ...