The film is compiled, rather than edited, by joining together four original films. (Reel 1) First IWM 31 INLAND WATER TRANSPORT, EGYPT and IWM 2 44TH REMOUNT SQUADRON ON THE EGYPTIAN COAST. (Reel 2) F...
The footage shows the parade of the riflemen's festival in Wetzlar in 1914, with participants of the '27th Verbandsschiessen Wetzlar' among others. The procession consists of festively decorated cars ...
Van Duylen, representative of a diamond syndicate, brings to Amsterdam the "Koh-I-Noor II", the largest diamond ever found. In one of the city's oldest diamond-cutting establishments it is cleft and t...
From February 4 to 9, 1920, at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées (Great Palace), the Société Centrale d'Aviculture de France (Central French Poultry Farming Society) exhibits the last of commande...
The men, "our gallant colonials," come from all the colonies. They wear a mixture of uniform.
Newsreel item on men of 1st King Edward's Horse setting out on a training ride in England in summer, ...
The 'big battle' structure of the film opens with the preparatory bombardment for the days before the attack, the Infantry marching to their final positions, the attack itself, the casualties, prisone...
Rolando, head of the republican party, saves the life to the young queen Alexia when her horse bolts. Both fall in love but his principles do not let him to become a king. On the other side, the Great...
The film starts with a cartoonist drawing figures which then animate themselves. The Kaiser sharpens a knife to carve up the world, the figures "1914" flying from the sparks. He and Franz Josef gloat ...
An illustrative part: soldier on fainting horse with the slogan: "Remember your brothers on battlefield!"
An illustrative part: Poster with the slogan: "The God´s fighters - Czechoslovak army in France" and soldier on horseback with Hussite flag.
A general view of the events in front of the snow-covered railway station in Irkutsk.