I. The build-up to war from the earliest days of film record, showing the various crowned heads of Europe.II. The Balkan wars of 1912, the development of Germany's Navy, and the inauguration of Presid...
The Stock Exchange in London "closes its doors" in 1914 - a crowd is clustered around it. "Germany mobilises," a pre-war German training exercise with the troops in Prussian blue, not field grey: a 77...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
The sports are held by convalescent soldiers wearing hospital blue uniforms, and by nurses. A man and woman in civilian clothes, well-dressed, throw sweets to the crowd of convalescents. The sports co...
A schoolmaster drives a tram as a part-time job. Other men board lorries taking them to work part-time on farms on Sundays. They are "of all classes, from lawyers to navvies". People without local all...
The Prince of Wales, "whose betrothal to Princess Yolanda of Italy is expected shortly", with Major-General Charles H Muir at US IV Corps headquarters at Cochem, Germany, probably early 1919.
The commander of 26th (Yankee) Division, Major-General Clarence R Edwards, stands with Lieutenant-Colonel C M Dowell before their dugout entrance at Bras. Nearby horses of 101st Field Artillery of the...
The funeral of a nurse killed when one of the British military hospitals in France was bombed (deliberately, according to the film) by the Germans in their March offensive. The caption style which is ...