Reportage about the visit of the British pilot John Alcock on August 3, 1919 Short news item about the visit of Captain Alcock to Amsterdam. The British pilot was famous for the non-stop flight across...
(Reel 1) The film opens by stating that as the basis for the expansion of the Army in wartime the TA "may be a factor in the maintenance of peace". Men of 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, mar...
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...