Limbered 77mm field guns pass at the trot, then halt for the crews to dismount. The caption points out that German NCOs lead each column. A posed group of senior officers, including one German in Turk...
The brigade, raised in Camberwell, parades through the streets on its way to join 33rd Division at Bulford. The streets are lined with people as the limbers move past.
Newsreel item on CLVI Briga...
The aircraft, a Rumpler Taube reconnaissance plane, has been brought down virtually intact, and lies guarded by French soldiers in the middle of a square. Curious Greek civilians surround it.
New...
The film starts with the four-man aircraft crew posed at the water's side in Kristianiafjord, with the two pilots, Captain S D Scott and Major C J Galpin, in the centre. Their flying-boat, a Felixstow...
The ship's hull, described as a "USA Mammoth Warship", comes down the slipway and into the water. It has yet to be fitted out (see notes).
Newsreel item on a launch at the New York Navy Yard, Bro...
Spectators watch as engineers complete the fitting of the tank's tracks for its rough ground tests. It drives up and down slopes, over frozen puddles, and across railway lines. Then, with the tracks a...
Over the rough ground of the foothills the British drive their tanks, the Light Tank Mark IIB. In close-up, the turret of one tank opens and the commander (wearing a special tanker's helmet) emerges t...
A line of Vickers Medium Mark I tanks, almost wheel-to-wheel, "greatly improved and much speedier than those in the Great War". A Dragon tows an 18-pounder Mark IV field gun along a road. At a field b...
Girl and boy in folk costumes embrace each other on the meadow. Behind them stands the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
Girl and boy in folk costumes embrace each other on the meadow. Behind them stands the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
Student Jiří Voldán, after the mobilisation order of 1914, is called up to serve in the Austro-Hungarian army to fight against Russia. With his Czech and Slovak compatriots, he decides to cross to ...
A group of civilians and policemen. In the middle stands infantryman Kubík (actor: Václav Kubásek) on suit. Next to Kubík stands a woman on skirt and shawl.
Jiří Voldán (actor: Vladimír Ch. Vladimírov) and his fiancée Maryša (actress: Suzanne Marwille) with the rifle.
Austrian military band
A group of Russian soldiers with fur hats, rifles and bayonets.
Mother of Jiří Voldán (actress: Marie Ptáková) in the female prison. Another women sit on the bed. At the door stands a soldier.
Imperator Film GmbH, Wenn frei das Meer für deutsche Fahrt !, Der Kinematograph, 556, (1917), S. 30.
Walter Thielemann, Der Vaterländische Hilfsdienst und die Kinobranche, Der Kinematograph, 521/2 , (1916). Befürchtung, der Vaterländische Hilfsdienst könne die Kinobranche schwächen. Diese sei ab...
Kriegsanleihe-Filme, Der Kinematograph, 563, (1917), S. 22. Ankündigung neuer Trickfilme zur Werbung für die Kriegsanleihe. Sie werden allesamt als sehr unterhaltsam und technisch gelungen beschrieb...
Universum Filmverleih, Die Waffen nieder, Der Kinematograph, 620, (1918), S. 28-33.
Julius Sternheim, Propaganda-und Aufklärungsfilme, Der Kinematograph, 592, (1918), S. 12-14. Propagandafilme müssten maßgeblich eine Botschaft verfolgen, was sie oftmals zwangsläufig langatmig mac...
Hansa Filverleih GmbH, Luftkämpfe. Ein Tag bei einer Jagdstaffel im Westen, Der Kinematograph, 558, (1917), S. 19-21.
Notes on the film and its thematics (a fundraising event for the War Memorial).
2 film guides (brochures), 18 pages each, 1st. And 3rd. editions. Documentary about the ventriloquist and automata creator Francisco Sanz Baldoví, codirected by Maximiliano Thous and Sanz himself. It...