Mr Gompers with two other labour leaders comes up the ladder and onto the quarterdeck of HMS Queen Elizabeth. Admiral Sir David Beatty is there with his staff to shake hands and meet him.The King and ...
(Reel 1) The film opens by stating that as the basis for the expansion of the Army in wartime the TA "may be a factor in the maintenance of peace". Men of 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, mar...
Chang's Army of Fengtien, with Russian assistance, advances down the coast of the Gulf of Chihli, the territory of the warlord Wu Pei-Fu of Peking. Most of the battle sequences are clearly reconstruct...
A balloon of 23rd Kite Balloon Company defended by a 13-pounder anti-aircraft gun on a lorry mount. A crashed RE8 reconnaissance aircraft (compare with the same scene in IWM 68 MESOPOTAMIA - DIYALA RI...
(Reel 1) The icebreaker SS Canada brings the cameraman and his colleagues into Archangel harbour in the middle of winter. The locals, in full furs, use sledges for transportation, some of them drawn b...
Uses of flying boats in the war, starting with a Felixstowe flying boat coming in to land at its base, probably Hamble, followed by a rare CE1 flying boat also landing. The main subject of the film is...
I. French language version of a newsreel of H S Cautley MP opening the municipal piggeries in London, June 1918. As a crowd watches, Cautley lights a fire under a bin in order to cook pigswill. He lad...
I. 'LONDON FLOWER FAIR. Lord Charles Beresford receives Royal party at British Ambulance Society's function in Trafalgar Square.' Admiral Lord Beresford in formal civilian dress talks with ex-Queen Am...
Hammering nails into flagpole of Czech legion and ceremonial blessing of the flag (28th September 1914) in Kiev.
Ceremonial blessing of the flag (28th September 1914) of Czech legion in Kiev.
Wide shot of an office. Standing from left to right are: Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), an Austrian colonel (actor: Jaroslav Marvan), a military guard, Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír ...
Wide shot of an officer. Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) is standing on the left. Dr. (actor: František Smolík) is standing behind a desk on the right with his back to Rjepkin. An Aust...
Wide shot of a corridor. Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič) is standing on the right with an arm in a cast and bandaged eyes. Infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk) is standing next...
First Lieutenant Liška (actor: František Kreuzmann) is lying on a hospital bed with his leg in a cast and smoking. An Austrian officer is sitting to the right of him and peeling something. In the ba...
Notes on the censorship of all films depicting themes related with WWI.
Reproduction of a law act of 1917 establishing to prior censorship of films related with WWI.
Commentary on the film and its subject matter (the tribute to Unknown Soldiers lost in World War I).
Notes on 2 documentary films portraying the countrywide tributes to the Unknown Soldiers lost in World War I.