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 ...
A Short 184 some distance away from the camera comes in to land, then takes off. A PV5 seaplane taxies through the harbour, increasing speed to keep ahead of the camera boat. A Short 184 taxies around...
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 cartoonist draws the figures of the Kaiser "Bill" and the Crown Prince "Billie". They play with a U-boat in a water bowl until a cargo ship marked "NOOTRAL" ('neutral' in US pronunciation) blocks ...
The film consists of unedited, unrelated scenes of Mark I and Mark IV tanks, at the Tank Corps training school at Bovington, on the Western Front, and in Palestine. It opens with unarmed Mark IV tanks...