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 ...
Wide shot of a hospital corridor. Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) stands in the middle of the corridor clasping hands with Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič), whose other arm...
Medium shot of several men sitting around a table with a half loaf of bread and a carafe of water. On the left sits Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) with a bandaged neck. To the right sit Vyskočil (...
Wide shot of a corridor. Standing in front of the door to Dr. Šrámek's office are Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) and Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) flanked by Austrian military guards...
View of an office. A colonel of the Austrian army (actor: Jaroslav Marvan) and Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) are standing at a desk. Behind Šrámek are two military guards (on the right, a...
Wide shot of an office. Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) is sitting at a desk and pointing at another doctor standing on the opposite side of the desk. Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is st...
Wide shot of a corridor and a door with a sign indicating "MUDr. Fr. Šrámek." Standing in front of the door are nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František ...
Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is lying on a hospital bed in the foreground. Three figures are standing over him: Nurse Mathilde (actor: Adina Mandlová) on the left, and doctors Šrám...
View of a hospital room. In the centre of the image, cadet Severa (actor: Stanislav Strnad) is lying on a bed and hugging his mother (actress: Marie Ptáková), who is sitting next to him. Rjepkin is ...
D., O.. „Pathé Frères & Co.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,6 (1913/1914): 149-150. Die Redaktion gibt bekannt, ab sofort die Werbung für die Firma Pathé F...
R. Genenncher, Die Internationalität des Films, Der Kinematograph, 630, (1919), S. 7-8. Entgegnung auf die Forderung nach nationaler Kunst. Es sei unsinnig, die in der Kaiserzeit vorherrschenden mona...
Robert Neulaender, Kino und Krieg, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV, 12, (1914/1915), S. 256-257. Die Filmberichte über das "Neueste vom Kriegsschauplatz" seien eig...
Hilda Blaschitz. „Tirol in Waffen (Andreas Hofer).“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,8 (1913/1914): 207-208. Blaschitz lobt den Film und hebt insbesondere hervor...
Emil Gobbers, Das Filmdrama im Zeichen der Revolution, Der Kinematograph, 652, (1919), S. 15-16. Der Film sei dazu berufen, die Ausdrucksform einer neuen Kunst für eine neue Zeit zu sein. Wenn sich d...
O. Verf.. „Krieg und Kino.“ Der Kinematograph 397 (1914): 3-4. Bericht, wie bislang der Film in Kriegen eingesetzt worden sei. Ratschläge an Kinobesitzer, wie sie sich zu verhalten hätten. Mutma...