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...
View of a restaurant filled with guests, primarily Austrian officers. Nurse Mathilde (actor: Adina Mandlová) is sitting in the centre background and behind her are seated musicians playing instrument...
Medium shot of an Austrian soldier, Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and other doctors standing by a desk in an office.
Wide shot of an Austrian soldier, Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), and other doctors standing by a desk in an office.
Medium shot of two nurses. Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) is holding a wash basin with a sponge and Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) is washing the face of a lying patient. In the backgro...
Wide shot of a café. Austrian officers sit around tables on the right and left (second from left is actor Jaroslav Marvan). Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) is standing next to the table on t...
View of a hospital room. Infantryman Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is lying on a bed with a bandaged neck and closed eyes. Leaning over him to the left is infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Piš...
In the foreground, Lieutenant Rjepkin is lying on a hospital bed. Two doctors and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) are standing over him. Dr. Klíma (actor: Karel Veverka) has a stethoscope i...
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) in civilian clothing and Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) in an officer's uniform. They are standing in a corridor.
L. Hamburger, Kriegsdramen, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV,6, (1914/1915), S. 119. Die neu entstandene Gattung des Kriegsfilms zeichne sich durch übelsten Kitsch ...
O.Th. Stein, Kinematographische Kriegsberichterstattung, Film und Lichtbild, 3, (1914), S. 42-44. Der Film wird als sensationell bewertet, der Produzentenfirma Expreß-Films wird angeraten, diesen Weg...
Asta-Nielsen-Lichtspiele GmbH. „Bismarck. Die neuesten Aufnahmen aus den Kriegstagen.“ Der Kinematograph 400 (1914): 1. Werbung, mit dem Hinweis, dass der Stoff des Filmes den ernsten Kriegstagen ...
O. Verf.. "Die Kinematographie auf dem 85. Naturforschertag in Wien." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 70-71. Meldung über den Einsatz von Filmen ...
Frankemölle, Wenzel. "In diesem Zeichen wirst du siegen." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,2 (1913/1914): 45-45. Frankemölle lobt den Historienfilm "In hoc signo v...