A patriotic film tinged with humor and sentimentalism. Stock footage (the crowded town, the departure of warships) and reconstructed war scenes in the desert are part of the second half about th...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Between 28-30 December 1917, Padua suffered three air raids by Austrian aircraft. After the first, The Times of London reported:"December 29. : Yesterday evening at 9 p.m. enemy airmen, true to their...
1. Intertitle: On 31st October the Great Berlin Steeplechase over difficult jumps took place in Karlshorst. 102,000 Marks prize, distance 4,400 metres. The race was won by the surprise victor „Cormo...
A silent melodrama about an artist who finds out in time the personal and social damage that his alcohol addiction causes.
Reportage about the visit of Queen Wilhelmina to Maastricht A crowd has gathered at the Vrijthof in Maastricht to watch the arrival of the Queen. Dignitaries and men with banners are ready to welcome ...
Il film mostra: un ponte sull’Isonzo, la stazione di Sagrado bombardata, una casa bombardata di Gradisca, le vie della città di Gradisca, un aereo nemico abbattuto nei pressi di Cossignacco, la cos...
1. Image: Animated map of the position of the front in Flanders in 1918; depiction of the advance of the German 4th and 8th armies westwards across Ypern, Kemel and Merville; aerial shots of the battl...
General Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli at his command post; briefing with Austrian officers at the map table; destroyed bridges over the Pruth before Czernowitz; Austrian troops bivouac on the banks of the ...
1. Intertitle: War reports from the east. 2. Intertitle: German transport columns near the blown-up new Weichsel bridge, which was only recently erected and completed for a million after seven years o...
Credits: Messter Weekly No. 4 (1 m.) 1. Intertitle:: Next to a blown-up railway bridge over the Meuse our forces have constructed a provisional bridge in an astoundingly short space of time, over whic...
The station and main square show bomb damage. A house stands burning with a fire engine outside it.
Clearing up debris in Amiens after a German bombing raid, Western Front, May 1918.
In 1919, following bombings of World War I, the town Arras is in ruins. The town hall and the belfry are destroyed, and homes have lost their facades or been reduced to piles of rocks. In the streets ...
1. Zwischentitel: Blick auf St. Quentin vom Börsenturm aus gesehen. Bild: Kameraschwenk über Ruinen in St. Quentin mit zerstörter Kathedrale. 2. Zwischentitel: Platz an der Kathedrale. Bild: Schwen...
Sign: Saxonian equine military hospital 234. !Stop! Admission strictly forbidden to horses with mange or suspicion of mange... (sign only incompletely visible.) 1. Intertitle: Horses with mild illness...
1. Intertitle: The destruction and ruins of war in Étain. 2. Intertitle: The church of Etain, a victim of French shelling. Image: The bombarded church of Étain. 3. Intertitle: The cemetery of Etain ...