The soldiers bring the full coaltrucks out to the surface of the mine. The coal is dumped from the trucks and horse-wagons are loaded from the dump. A traction engine runs a coal-crusher. A few soldie...
6th Battalion, the Black Watch of 51st (Highland) Division collecting the men's packs between the Bois de Reims and St-Imoges, having just come out of line on 24 July. 1/5th Battalion, the Devonshire ...
The men are French I Corps and British II Corps to the south. A mixed posed group of British and French soldiers talk with one another. British officers watch a French 75mm field gun crew opening fire...
Part of the area is flooded. A marching column sets out for the front lines. Engineers knock in stakes for wire defences in the second line and fix wire to them. A relief patrol moves up in single fil...
The King, in Army uniform, watches the children at work on an allotment. He is joined by Queen Mary, with R E Prothero, the President of the Board of Agriculture, walking behind. A girl gives the Quee...
The women work out of doors. One woman cuts off pieces of dough for loaves, a second weighs the pieces and a third rolls them into spheres. After baking, the women carry the trays out and loosen the l...
The film emphasises the pre-war uniqueness of Britain, rich, insular, with a strong trading position and a free democracy united under the constitutional monarchy. The only pre-war violence comes in t...
The item opens with a misplaced caption (from a missing item in the issue about Lord Northcliffe), then shows very briefly WAACs outside the church cheering, and press photographers at work.The captio...