The Stock Exchange in London "closes its doors" in 1914 - a crowd is clustered around it. "Germany mobilises," a pre-war German training exercise with the troops in Prussian blue, not field grey: a 77...
The inhabitants of the centre are soldiers in hospital blues, all either with an arm or a leg missing, or in wheelchairs, or blind. A group of them assembles to hear a representative of the Ministry o...
I. The dogs, a mixture of terrier mongrels, are paraded with their handlers and taken for walking exercises. They are given a course to run over unescorted which includes fences and barbed wire to jum...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
I. The build-up to war from the earliest days of film record, showing the various crowned heads of Europe.II. The Balkan wars of 1912, the development of Germany's Navy, and the inauguration of Presid...
Views of the camp, showing that "prisoners have ample room for exercise". The prisoners' band of mandolins, violins and drums plays to an audience of prisoners in the open. Prisoners help to unload a ...
I. (Reel 1) The Handley Page works at Cricklewood, London. Women work as clerks, help build aeroplane engines, cope with acetylene welding and complex wiring jobs, spray-paint Lewis machine gun magazi...
I. A recruiting march by girls of the Women's Land Army in central London, April 1918. Members of the Women's Land Army form an escort for the Lord Mayor of London, Charles A Hanson, as he enters Sain...
i. AMERICAN MISSION IN LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. DR PAGE WITH DELEGATES WHO WILL TELL U.S. OF OUR WAR WORK. U.S. Ambassador W.H. Page and his group embark from ship in Liverpool. They talk with women work...
Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
Baylies, shot down on 17th June (described as "reported missing") was an American flying with 3ième Escadrille. He is shown beside his Spad 13 talking with a French officer.The men move along a trenc...
Close to Villers Bretonneux the tank 'Elfriede', victim of the first tank-to-tank engagement on 24th April, lies on its side with its track mechanism clearly visible.A view of the mountain area. The P...
The troops (described as in action, but quite clearly training) practise rushing forward from slit trench to slit trench, directed by umpires. They throw their smoke grenades into the opposing trenche...
The camera, on board a boat, travels down the river, being passed by a light launch. On a camouflaged raft moored at the side of the river are two British 4.7-inch guns. Further down is a moored barge...
Field Artillery fire a 75mm M16 field gun. Riflemen practise firing lying down at a range, and then retire.
Newsreel item on the US Army in training on the Pacific Coast of America, April or May ...
The men are trying out caterpillar tractors, which pull 75mm M16 field guns, complete with limbers on which men are riding, over rough ground out in the desert.
I. Newsreel item on 'C' Battery, U...