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...
The town is shown from a distance, then in close-up. The suburbs are burnt out and deserted. The main square is relatively undamaged. The collegiate church and the Church of Saint Martin show consider...
The canals running through the town are undamaged but the main girder bridge has been brought down. British soldiers of II Corps wait in the main square.Civilians watch while the British, of 40th Divi...
The map, in stop-frame action, shows the German invasion of France and Belgium in 1914, followed by a more detailed version of the Allied advance to victory between July and November 1918. The Allied ...
The body of Marshal Foch lies in state at the Invalides. King Albert of Belgium and then a crowd of people file past to pay their last respects. For the procession the streets are lined with soldiers....
(Reel 1) It is 1914 and the outbreak of the war. Mr Smith, a prosperous businessman, is starting to lose staff who have volunteered for the Army and he refuses women replacements. He also prevents his...
Medium shot of Thornycroft V Class destroyer steaming at speed. Medium long shot off port quarter of two battleships - the nearest is HMS Canada preceded by an Iron Duke flying a kite balloon. Long sh...
(Reel 1) Opening pan across fleet anchorage (note HMS Neptune). The King is seen onboard a succession of battleships, watching marchpasts of the crews - HMS Queen Elizabeth (Colossus Class in backgrou...
Medium shot of Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) standing in a small room. The nurse is in uniform and holds the button on Rjepkin's coat. In ...
Medium shot of three privates: Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk), yawning Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta), and smiling Vyskočil (actor: Břetislav Hrstka).
Medium close-up of the wounded Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič) with bandaged eyes and an arm in a cast with Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová, in profile).
Medium shot of an operating room. Standing around the lying patient are Dr. Klíma (actor: Karel Veverka), a nurse (actress: Míla Mellanová), Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), and another nu...
Wide shot of a hospital corridor with Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský). Other patients can be seen...
Wide shot of a hospital room during doctor's rounds. In the centre, a Muslim patient in a robe and with a fez on his head sits on a bed. To the left of him stands a group of five doctors with doctors ...
Wide shot of men sitting at a table in a hospital room. Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is standing at the head of the table with raised arms, speaking to the group. Sitting to the left of him is Vy...
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....
Hermann Häfker, Kinematographie und Krieg, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV,1, (1914/1915), S. 1-3. Der Krieg sei der Sache der Kinoreform förderlich, weil die aus...
Waldner, Dagmar. "Kino und Wahlagitation." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,7 (1913/1914): 174. Bericht über den Einsatz des Films, um die Wähler über die Notwend...
Große Protest-Versammlung, Der Kinematograph, 678, (1920), S. 3. Aufruf zu einer Protestveranstaltung gegen die Verstaatlichung der Kinos.
Kurbelmann im Kriegsdienst, Der Kinematograph, 436, (1915), S. 21-24. Aus der Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung zitierter Bericht über die Erlebnisse eines Kriegsfilmers.
Rennert, Malwine. „Gabriele d'Annunzio als Filmdichter.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, III, 9/10 (1913/1914): 210-213. Rennert lobt den Film über alle Maßen, w...
O. Verf.. „Ein Kinematographengesetz in Württemberg.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 73. Jeder Film, der öffentlich vorgeführt werde, mü...