Two WRNS in overalls work out of doors under the supervision of a petty officer, one reassembling a stripped Lewis machine gun and the other cleaning a pistol. Indoors, probably the WRNS officers' mes...
In Trafalgar Square a big placard has been placed across the plinth of Nelson's Column, reading "England Expects This Day That Every Man Will Do His Duty". People crowd the square. Around the plinth a...
"Les Annales de la Guerre" is considered the first state-produced newsreel in the history of cinema. Beginning in the spring of 1917, the French government produced the series through a film departmen...
Scenes of a riverside town, including its castle. The river itself has steep banks, and is wide and fast-flowing. The German Engineers, in fatigue dress, row the pontoon boats with their wooden cross-...
A corporal and private of the Hampshire Regiment, overseen by a junior officer, use cylinders of gas to inflate medium-sized balloons. To each of these is attached a string carrying a bundle of leafle...
The Manunal was a covering mat or carpet for the Kaa'ba outside the Great Mosque at Mecca. Very highly decorated, a new one was made in Cairo each year and transported in ceremonial procession to Port...
Not a finished film but the jumbled remains of one. It consists partly of long sections of subtitle captions without accompanying images, and staged actuality material of two soldiers using a Lewis ma...
The men, from various regiments, all go into a building marked "Entrance for Troops for Dispersal". They are checked off against a list, each handed their discharge papers (?) and issued with civilian...
Maria Immhofen, Olaf Fønss (in the middle) in "Die Vernichtung der Menschheit" (1916)
Screenshot from "Harry wird Millionär"
Screenshot from "Harry wird Millionär"
The battle of Zborov: Austrian soldier (left) and Russian one in the Austrian trenches.
Medium close-up of Nurse Tonička (Truda Grosslichtová) and Corporal Bartoněk (Jiří Vondrovič) standing in a corridor. They are smiling at one another and she is touching his bandaged hand.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers in the trench with stuffy noses. One of them holds a rotten can.
Wide shot depicting the activity in front of a stopped train. Combat medics are carrying Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) from the train on a stretcher; Rjepkin is covered with a blanket....
After the mobilization: women hold on men and cry. On the left Janda (smith), the second one is Tomeš (farmer).
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...