The film uses actuality, graphics and animation to make the contrast between production in 1914 and 1917. (Reel 1) Factories run by the Army Training School for injured soldiers, including one run by ...
Italian battleships escort their transports towards Tripoli. The battleships Francesco Fernuccio and Re Umberto form part of the escort. View from the shore of the Italian fleet, out at sea, bombardin...
2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers of 5th Division, including four bagpipers, detraining and resting at Legnano, 20 December 1917. 1st Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment (?) of 5th Divisio...
(Reel 1) Food, fodder and equipment are unloaded at a railhead freightyard, and put into motorised and horse-drawn vehicles for the trip up to Mount Tonale and the River Piave valley. The convoys move...
One of the men demonstrates how to fit on a pair of skis. The group of Chasseurs Alpins skis from one side of a valley to the other and a few members demonstrate ski-jumping over a low jump, the major...
Men of 332nd Infantry Regiment, detached from 83rd (Ohio) Division, being led by Italian soldiers into the second line of a trench system and going on to occupy a front line. Some of the Americans dis...
I. Two French soldiers in silhouette are rowed by gondola to St Mark's Square in Venice, with the Doges' Palace nearby and other gondolas riding at rest. The film emphasises that war has removed the g...
The film emphasises the pre-war uniqueness of Britain, rich, insular, with a strong trading position and a free democracy united under the constitutional monarchy. The only pre-war violence comes in t...