The film stresses local personalities (some mentioned by name) and details of local life. At the village pump a notice-board is used for newspapers to spread news of the war. Children play round a may...
Amateur footage of a show of wedding presents and a wedding reception.
The film starts with a posed group of the RAF team. Three heats of the 100 yards sprint are shown, followed by the one mile race which is won by Corporal J Mason from New Zealand. (Mason is not shown ...
Celebration of the 10th anniversary of breaking-out the Thessaloniki front was held in Belgrade on the 7th and 8th October 1928 with participation of military delegations of the Allied countries – F...
Beirut er under genopbygning efter borgerkrigen 1974-1991 og byen er præget af de voldsomme ting, der er foregået. Menneskene i byen skal finde en måde at komme videre på på trods af de ting der ...
Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
The sports are watched by the divisional GOC, Major-General Harper of 51st (Highland) Division, and by Field Marshal Haig. The pipe band marches past the watching troops. Haig, after looking around, l...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
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...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
Coverage of Ferguslie Thread Works Outing to Braemar, which is also know as Sma' Shot Day, a privilege won by the workers of all thread mills in the Paisley area.
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
The construction, launch and testing of the super tanker 'Hamilton Sleigh', built in Scotstoun for the Australian Golden Fleece petroleum company.