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 ...
Bárta (laborer) in the uniform of Czechoslovak volunteer from France.
Three Russian soldiers sit on the bench and sing.
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - the 1st President of Czechoslovak Republic - contemplates.
An illustrative part: Poster with the slogan: "Czechoslovaks! Join our free Colors!" and flags with provincial emblems.
An illustrative part: Poster with the slogan: "The God´s fighters - Czechoslovak army in France" and soldier on horseback with Hussite flag.
The battle of Zborov: Dead soldier and rifle with bayonet stuck in the ground.
Wounded Tomeš.
Austrian soldier with a rifle lying in the trench. A hand-grenade is in front of him.
O. Verf.. "Kino-Kritik." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 68-69. Obwohl immer wieder Forderungen nach der Hebung des Niveaus im Kino laut würden, ...
Egon Jacobsohn, Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 652, (1919), S. 21. "Die Welt, der große Kuppler" wird als kitschig und misslungen bewertet, ebenso "Die Postanweisung". "Ich...
F. Felix, Krieg den Kriegsdramen, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV, 4/5, (1914/1915), S. 91-93. Polemik gegen die Verarbeitung der Kriegsereignisse im Film und gegen...