A view down onto the square, decorated with Cuban, American and occasional British flags. From ground level, Catholic Church dignitaries seated in the foreground, with an audience of Cuban civilian me...
La Bassée from across the canal, showing narrow boats and a pontoon bridge being crossed by five British soldiers, Western Front, 3rd October 1918.
La Bassée from across the canal, showing narr...
(Reel 5) The episode, as with all in the series, opens with the figure of 'Justice' portrayed by an actress. British troops march in column through villages near to the front. A bombardment by 60-poun...
The film starts with a cartoonist drawing figures which then animate themselves. The Kaiser sharpens a knife to carve up the world, the figures "1914" flying from the sparks. He and Franz Josef gloat ...
A working class man expresses dissatisfaction about dinner, protesting to his wife that their neighbour still makes suet puddings and dumplings. Sneaking a look through the neighbour's window on the f...
Canadian lumberjacks at work stop for their main meal of beans. In stop-action, a packet of beans and some pork fat are shown as their main food. "Beans are an energiser", the lumberjacks continue wor...
The film irises up on the huts of the camp, which is large and well laid-out. A column of WRAFs marches along a path in the camp. At a pay parade indoors the women come forward in turn to collect thei...
Newsreel item on horsebreaking in Palestine, December 1917.