A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
Four reels of very jumbled material, mainly out-of-focus or of poor quality. The first reel is mainly of fragments from the Western Front 1916-1918 taken by British official cameramen, the remainder f...
The film appears to be of the intervention in North Russia, but varies in quality from slightly out of focus to completely blurred.
Blurred and unviewable film of the British intervention in Nort...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
The battle of Zborov: Three soldiers in the trench, Tomeš in the middle.
The battle of Zborov: A soldier gives to smell a rotten can to his sleeping friend.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers in the trench with stuffy noses. One of them holds a rotten can.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers sit in the trench.
The batttle of Zborov: A board with the slogan in Austrian trenches - "Wer diese Stellungen erstürmt vernichtet Österreich."/ "A conqueror of this position will defeat Austria".
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers hidden in the trench.
An office with two sitting Russian generals (on the left Rudolf Medek - author of the synopsis). Tomeš registers himself as a volunteer.
A documentary part: First days of the independent Czechoslovak Republic - František Udržal speaks to the gathering of people in front of the monument of Jan Hus.
Die grosse Wette. Ein phantastisches Erlebnis aus dem Jahre 2000, Der Kinematograph, 476, (1916), S. 17.
Kriegsanleihe-Filme, Der Kinematograph, 562, (1917), S. 28. Der Film "Der papierene Peter" wird als humorvoll und originell bewertet und werde seinem Zwecke gerecht.
Kriegsanleihe-Filme, Der Kinematograph, 561, (1917), S. 14. Da "Der feldgraue Groschen" einen so durchschlagenden Erfolg hatte, seien noch weitere Filme zur Kriegsanleihe gedreht worden. "Hann, Hein u...
Argus, Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 566, (1917), S. 21-22. Rezensionen zu "Aus des Deutschen Reiches Waffenschmiede", "Höhenluft mit Henny Porten" und "Der schwarze Chauf...
Josef Max Jacobi, Der Triumph des Films, Der Kinematograph, 563, (1917), S. 13-14. Die Macht des Films sei lange verkannt worden, im Krieg aber hätte sie sich bewiesen. Kinobesitzer sollten mit gutem...
Argus, Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 562, (1917), S.18-27. Die Messter-Film-Aufnahmen vom Luftkämpfen stehen an erster Stelle und werden als sensationell bezeichnet.
Universum Filmverleih, Der ewige Frieden Pax Aeterna, Lichtbildbühne, 48, (1918), S. 68
Neutral Film, Die Welt ohne Hunger, Lichtbildbühne, 48, (1918), S. 3.