The general area of Ypres. Filmed from just outside the town itself, shells falling on buildings on the outskirts. Two Mark V tanks, one Male, one Female, both carrying soldiers, move over open countr...
The town is shown from a distance, then in close-up. The suburbs are burnt out and deserted. The main square is relatively undamaged. The collegiate church and the Church of Saint Martin show consider...
The canals running through the town are undamaged but the main girder bridge has been brought down. British soldiers of II Corps wait in the main square.Civilians watch while the British, of 40th Divi...
The map, in stop-frame action, shows the German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914, followed by a more detailed version of the Allied advance to victory between July and November 1918. The Allied ...
The body of Marshal Foch lies in state at the Invalides. King Albert of Belgium and then a crowd of people file past to pay their last respects. For the procession the streets are lined with soldiers....
(Reel 1) It is 1914 and the outbreak of the war. Mr Smith, a prosperous businessman, is starting to lose staff who have volunteered for the Army and he refuses women replacements. He also prevents his...
Medium shot of Thornycroft V Class destroyer steaming at speed. Medium long shot off port quarter of two battleships - the nearest is HMS Canada preceded by an Iron Duke flying a kite balloon. Long sh...
(Reel 1) Opening pan across fleet anchorage (note HMS Neptune). The King is seen onboard a succession of battleships, watching marchpasts of the crews - HMS Queen Elizabeth (Colossus Class in backgrou...
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) lying in a bed with a bandage on her left elbow. Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) is standing on the left with her hand resting o...
Medium shot of Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) standing next to a night stand in a hospital room. In the background is a window with a panoramic view of Brno.
Wide shot of an empty city street with three-storeyed buildings on the right and urban greenery on the left.
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) standing in a half opened door with her hand on the door handle.
Three families on the villiage green after the mobilization. From the left Mrs. Bártová and her son, Bárta (laborer), Janda (smith) and Tomeš (farmer) pledge a loyalty to the idea of Slavonic unit...
Three families on the public green after mobilization. From the left: Mrs. Bártová, Bárta and his son, Janda and his family, Tomeš and his family. Travel packages in the foreground.
After the mobilization: women hold on men and cry. On the left Janda (smith), the second one is Tomeš (farmer).
Farmer Tomeš and his son Jeníček with the oxcart full of straw.
St., O.Th.. "Lichtbildliches aus Sachsens Residenz." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,7 (1913/1914): 174. Bericht über das Dresdner Kinowesen. U.a wird auch das Jug...
Berthold Baer, Amerikana, Der Kinematograph, 422, (1915), S. 21-22. Die Stimmung in den USA sei durch Filme der Ententemächte sehr gegen Deutschland gestimmt. Die Deutschen seien sich nicht darüber ...
Die Schaffnerin der Linie 6. Ein neuzeitliches Lebensbild, Der Kinematograph, 464, (1915), S. 17-19. Werbung für einen Film, der die kriegsbedingte zunehmende Beschäftigung von Frauen in der Öffent...
Emscher, Horst: „Der Krieg und die deutsche Filmindustrie.“ Der Kinematograph 404 (1914): 5-6. Erörterung der wirtschaftlichen Lage der deutschen Filmindustrie. Entgegnet dem Vorwurf, dass die Be...
Sellmann, Adolf. "Neue Lehrhafte Filme (Von Mitte August bis Anfang Oktober)", Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 1 (1913/1914): 20-22. A.S. stellt die neuesten Lehrf...