All three Guards brigades were at the inspection. The film opens with the men, including the massed bands of the division, assembling in position. Connaught arrives on horseback with an escort of Indi...
The film is fragmented, switching from one scene to another and returning in a way which makes it hard to follow. Private Heavyside (of 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry) arrives by train at Shiel...
Only the brake-wheel can be seen of the train, and for part of the time a lance-corporal brakeman with his back to the camera. The track moves through the rubble, clay and destroyed villages of the ar...
A procession through the streets of the city, civilians mainly in formal dress, some using crutches. A convoy of cars arrives, and the city mayor gets out from one of them. A column of Belgian Cavalry...
Part of the ship's company assembled in front of the bridge tower, which shows the ship's crest and battle honours of Rabaul, German New Guinea and Samoa. A flag officer (no clear view) presents one o...
Close-up of a sergeant holding a football marked 2Y&L. Pan over the men of the battalion, lying, sitting or standing informally, with two Lewis machine guns in the front row. Two lance-corporals sitti...
In the cookhouse one woman takes a tin from the oven while another pulls a second tin from the back using a long pole. Other women work stirring porridge or cutting meat. (The scene shifts to Dieppe -...
I. A company of the battalion on one side of a country road as the band marches up and turns before the camera. The assembled battalion cheers the camera. A group of three officers with the battalion ...
Wide shot of a hospital room with a group of standing patients and three military privates. One of the privates, infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk), stands in the middle and conducts as th...
Wide shots of an office. A group of seven Austrian officers (fifth from left is actor Jaroslav Marvan) stand at the door and look at Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), who is standing behind a ...
Panorama of the city of Brno (one of the film's settings) with a railway station in the foreground and the top of Špilberk castle on the horizon. The cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul protrudes up o...
Wide shot of a corridor. Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič) is standing on the right with an arm in a cast and bandaged eyes. Infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk) is standing next...
Panorama of the city of Brno (one of the film's settings) with the cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul on the horizon.
Messter Film GmbH, Zum 70. Geburtstag Generalfeldmarschalls von Hindenburg, Der Kinematograph, 561, (1917), S. 18-19.