The Mayor and town council assemble outside the Town Hall and deliver speeches on the presentation of the ambulances. A local clergyman gives a prayer. The ambulances then drive past the watching sold...
In a field, soldiers, officers, civilians, and Jules-Louis Breton, members of the Invention Department Committee, study different types of machine guns designed to be fired at tanks.
In 1917, Chinese workers who have come to France to support the Allies in the war effort, move forward in a line then disperse, as some civilians look on.
Movies unidentified. The scenes show probably the invasion of France by the German army in the early stages of the First World War.
During World War I, cities and villages in north-eastern France have been destroyed by the hundreds and people are living in the ruins. Brave women continue to distribute milk. In the schools, childre...
The 2nd of August 1914 - mobilization day. French troops invade German territory and occupy an inn. The innkeeper's daughter reports the attack. The French soldiers are overpowered.
The British reverse their Mark V Male tanks into a courtyard in the centre of the city, to the interest of the civilian crowd. The men perform maintenance on their tanks, while soldiers and armed Germ...
A stage has been set up in a field near the town, and men of the Corps perform an acrobatic and dancing show in costume for an audience of soldiers of various nationalities, predominantly British, and...
31103 - Thann - Rue des Boeufs - Saint-Thiébaut Church (Thann, Haut-Rhin) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
Austrian soldiers and a group of children and civilians.
Recruitment commission. In the foreground stands Jiří Voldán (actor: Vladimír Ch. Vladimírov).
A crowd of civilians on Wenceslas Square in Prague during mobilization.
A crowd of civilians on Wenceslas Square in Prague during mobilization.