A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
Four reels of very jumbled material, mainly out-of-focus or of poor quality. The first reel is mainly of fragments from the Western Front 1916-1918 taken by British official cameramen, the remainder f...
The film appears to be of the intervention in North Russia, but varies in quality from slightly out of focus to completely blurred.
Blurred and unviewable film of the British intervention in Nort...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
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 ...
Wounded soldiers rest on camp beds in front of the hospital building.
Wounded soldiers eat in a hospital room.
A military doctor shows a wounded soldier to a Red Cross delegation.
Requisition of horses.
Conscripts in the assembly camp.
Wide shot of a hospital room. A standing First Lieutenant Schranel (actor: Vladimír Pospíšil-Born) shakes hands with First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František Kreuzmann), who is sitting on a bed w...
View of a dance café. Several couples are dancing on the left, including First Lieutenant Schranel (actor: Vladimír Pospíšil-Born) and Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová). To the right of th...
Die Kommunalisierung, Der Kinematograph, 672, (1919), S. 32-33. Plädoyer gegen die Pläne der Verstaatlichung aller Kinos. Die Verstaatlichung schade nur dem Staat, blähe die Bürokratie unnötig au...
Warstat, W.. „Kino und Schule. Von Prof. Dr. A. Sellmann.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,5 (1913/1914): 116-117. Der Rezensent sieht die Verwendung von Filmen...
Kriegsecho in der Kinomusik, Der Kinematograph, 411, (1914), S. 18-19. Bericht über die musikalische Untermalung von Kriegsaufnahmen durch die Kinoorchester, die oft als störend empfunden würden.