An 18-pounder field gun battery emerges head-on out of a farm courtyard onto a very wet and muddy road. RFA gunners pack 18-pounder shells into wooden boxes for transportation. A 4.5-inch field howitz...
A selection of the most visually attractive film taken by the British official cameramen during March and April (for the GERMAN OFFENSIVE series) without regard to date or place, padded out with stock...
I. 'DIFFICULTIES OF TRANSPORT. Some of the troubles to be overcome by the transport to keep in touch with the advancing troops.' Wagons, carts, 18-pounder artillery and a convoy of motor lorries pass ...
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...
The ceremony takes place in a field, with men of Plumer's staff watching as he pins medals for bravery onto women officers of the Queen Alexandra's First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and the Voluntary Aid Det...
A posed group of the battalion. One man has a small child on his knee, to whom he is chanting nursery rhymes. The men form up for an issue of beer. Men of 'C' Company are issued with hot food from car...
The general area of Ypres. Filmed from just outside the town itself, shells falling on buildings on the outskirts. Two Mark V tanks, one Male, one Female, both carrying soldiers, move over open countr...
A Cavalry troop makes a charge across the face of the camera, thrusting with swords or lances at sacks stuffed with straw on the ground. All the demonstrators are riding light, without bandoliers, val...
Screenshot from "Der beste Schuß"
Heinrich Schroth
Still with Rudolf Biebrach (in the middle, front)
Still with Rudolf Biebrach (on the right)
Screenshot from "Michel und Viktoria"
Screenshot from "Ihr Unteroffizier"
Screenshot from "Zouaves d’Afrique dans les Flandres Belges"
Screenshot from "Oorlogsannalen No. 85"
Specator, Das letzte Jahr, Der Kinematograph, 472, (1916), S. 17-18. Jahresrückblick. Die deutsche Filmindustrie sei zur Großindustrie geworden. Die Aufklärungsarbeit der Wochenschauen im Ausland w...
Imperator Film GmbH, Wenn frei das Meer für deutsche Fahrt !, Der Kinematograph, 556, (1917), S. 30.
Walter Thielemann, Der Vaterländische Hilfsdienst und die Kinobranche, Der Kinematograph, 521/2 , (1916). Befürchtung, der Vaterländische Hilfsdienst könne die Kinobranche schwächen. Diese sei ab...
Kriegsanleihe-Filme, Der Kinematograph, 563, (1917), S. 22. Ankündigung neuer Trickfilme zur Werbung für die Kriegsanleihe. Sie werden allesamt als sehr unterhaltsam und technisch gelungen beschrieb...
Universum Filmverleih, Die Waffen nieder, Der Kinematograph, 620, (1918), S. 28-33.
Julius Sternheim, Propaganda-und Aufklärungsfilme, Der Kinematograph, 592, (1918), S. 12-14. Propagandafilme müssten maßgeblich eine Botschaft verfolgen, was sie oftmals zwangsläufig langatmig mac...
Hansa Filverleih GmbH, Luftkämpfe. Ein Tag bei einer Jagdstaffel im Westen, Der Kinematograph, 558, (1917), S. 19-21.
"Hu-hu ! Wir schröcklich ! (mit'n „ö“)", Der Kinematograph, 490, (1916), S. 20(?). Entgegnung auf die Behauptungen des Abgeordneten Werner-Giessen, die Flut an Krimis in den Kinos schade der Mor...