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 ...
Janda (smith) in the uniform of Czechoslovak volunteer from Italy.
Tomeš kisses the flag.
An ilustrative part: Unknown soldier chokes Austrian eagle.
An illustrative part: An unknown soldier carries a woman - symbol of Slavic patriotism.
The battle of Zborov: Captured Austrian soldiers run in the trench.
Two Austrian soldiers give up without a fight to Russians.
Five men sit on logs in front of a barn. From the left: Janda (smith) and his son, Bárta (laborer) and his son and Jeník Tomeš. Nearby Jeník stands his father - Tomeš sen. Sons are dressed in the...
Three men in front of a barn. From the left: Janda (smith), Tomeš (farmer) and Bárta (laborer).
List of costumes and stage properties
Contest for the music to the film
Conditions of screening in Bio Fenix in Prague