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...
Episode of the series "Aviation in Brescia": airplane exercises featuring the pilots Curtiss, Rougier, Calderara, Blériot and Cobianchi.
i. AMERICAN MISSION IN LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. DR PAGE WITH DELEGATES WHO WILL TELL U.S. OF OUR WAR WORK. U.S. Ambassador W.H. Page and his group embark from ship in Liverpool. They talk with women work...
Short reportage about seaplanes, stationed on an aircraft carrier. On the ship the seaplanes are repaired and getting ready. The seaplane is being lifted on board and takes off. Subsequently aerial sh...
A German officer addresses his men in a dugout. They emerge from the dugout and man their trench against an Australian attack. The Australians storm the trench and throw grenades down into the dugouts...
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...
French language version of a newsreel item on the town of Amiens after the German failure to capture it, showing a pan over the town and the outside of the cathedral, Western Front, 5th-7th April 1918...
Reportage about the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Germany and Prince Ernst Augustus of Cumberland.
War drama about a father and a son who depart to the French-German front. The son is deceased during a battle, which great sadness for the father.
Various news items about the First World War, compiled for home projection. Optimism and emphasis on international collaboration, remains preserved and the more gruesome or embarrassing war images wer...
Romantic film in which a couple who have been together for fifty years reminisce about the time they first met. Jack Stevens informs the couple Philippe and Maud Perkins, who are celebrating their f...
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on General Sir William Robertson inspecting Australian and New Zealand officer trainees in Cambridge, April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsr...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on Welsh Day in London, June 1918. II. French language version of a newsreel item on the knighting of Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes by George V at Buckingh...
"FRANCES' DAY. London celebrates 14th of July by wearing the tricolour in honour of her glorious ally." British Army officers stand in busy street with girls sporting bonnets and dresses decorated in ...
I.The march past. Cavalry artillery and Royal Engineers with their pontoon equipment marching past the King.II. Royal Review. His Majesty the King attended by Field Marshal the Viscount French inspe...
Short comedy about two neighbour children from different social environments, Fritz en Mädi, during the First World War. They are bragging about their fathers who are returning from the war, and play...
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
Napoleon is called up to the army, and says goodbye to Sally, and to the people in the film studio. He leaves. But Sally quickly chases after him, and together they arrive at "Fort Skiddoo". The chaot...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
01 - Estero Rotative di giornali e titoli sugli avvenimenti che stanno sconvolgendo l’Europa dell’est: in Polonia la rivolta degli studenti contro il regime, in Cecoslovacchia le dimissioni ...
Non-identified fragment of a documentary about Italian naval operations, showing a battleship, navy officers on the deck, a submarine charging torpedoes and a seaplane landing on the sea. It has no ti...
News of the exhibition in Lisbon of a group of “war films” in a tribute to the allied nations.