A ferry boat unloads a train on the coasts of Sicily; the steam engine starts moving, the railway winds through stark landscapes and picturesque coastlines. In the meantime we are shown the gathering ...
I. French language version of a newsreel of H S Cautley MP opening the municipal piggeries in London, June 1918. As a crowd watches, Cautley lights a fire under a bin in order to cook pigswill. He lad...
Subtitle captions give the French gains in the offensive as the strongpoints Fruty, Bohery and Montparnasse, the fort at Malmaison, and the villages of d'Allemant, Vaudesson, Chavignon, Pinon and Parg...
(Reel 1) The Kaiser gets into the state barge and is rowed across the Bosphorus (tinted orange). On the far side he gets out to greet various German officials (tinting ends). He tours Topkapi, the old...
I. 'BATTLE OF OURCQ. The inhabitants of Meaux, celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Battle of Ourcq, which resulted in the Germans being held at the Marne'. HA.LS over crowd filing through walled grav...
I. 'WOMEN LAND WORKERS. Appeals are made by the Government for help on the land. Some of the women who have answered their country's call.' Men at work in a field of tobacco - they are cutting down th...
(Reel 25) The episode starts with 'Justice'. The opening states that this was "the great final offensive, in which the whole might of Britain's arms was concentrated, with an overwhelming force, upon ...
Australia House is at the east end of the Strand. Australian soldiers march to the building. King George arrives in his carriage with Queen Mary. A view of the facade of the building with the King and...