The film opens with rolling fields, corn stacks at regular intervals. Soldiers line up for an open-air pay parade. Walking wounded come up a hill towards the camera, followed by some stretcher cases, ...
By 1916 the Artists Rifles was not a serving battalion but a holding unit for officer trainees. A group of trainees is shown drilling on a parade ground, probably at Montreuil, and being addressed by ...
(Reel 15) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, gives a public speech from an Army staff car. A montage of women and men operating various metal presses, drop hamm...
(Reel 23) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Bayonet drill and a marchpast by the Northamptonshire Regiment. A marchpast and open air meal from the Cheshire Regiment, and a portrait shot of "Private J...
(Reel 25) The episode starts with 'Justice'. The opening states that this was "the great final offensive, in which the whole might of Britain's arms was concentrated, with an overwhelming force, upon ...
General scenes of destruction with British troops in the middle distance, showing mainly the damage done to the church, inside and out, and a water-filled crater.
Damage done to the village of Ri...
I. A Machine Gun Section of seven men with one Lewis gun walking in line across an open field comes to a ridge, and the men form for action. Four men go forward to set up the machine gun (a gunner, a ...
The camp is mainly of wooden huts with a few permanent buildings, for German NCOs and other ranks. Roll-call is taken early in the morning by the Germans themselves. Most are wearing patched uniforms ...
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.
Emil Perlmann, Wenn die Waffen ruhen...!, Der Kinematograph, 619, (1918). Erörterung der Lage der Filmindustrie angesichts des greifbaren Kriegsendes. Die Filmindustrie müsse den Kampf gegen die Zen...
Walter Thielemann, Der Film 1917, Der Kinematograph, 573, (1917), S. 12ff. Jahresrückblick. Positiv hervorgehoben wird die immer breitere Anerkennung, die dem Kino zuteil werde, da der immer mehr sei...
Colonia-Film-GmbH, Die Leute wollen mal wieder lachen !, Der Kinematograph, 508, (1916), S. 43.
Poldi Schmidl, Der Kinobesitzer als Staatsbeamter, Der Kinematograph, 607, (1918). Angesichts der geplanten Konzessionspflicht für Kinobesitzer wird die Möglichkeit einer Verstaatlichung der Filmind...
Deutsche Lichtbild Gesellschaft e.V., Die Arbeit unserer Heimarmee, Der Kinematograph, 566, (1917), S. 11.
"'Um das grosse Erbe'. Aufhebung eines Filmverbots", Der Kinematograph, 549, (1917), S. 11-14.
Universum Filmverleih, Söhne des Volkes, Der Kinematograph, 620, (1918), S. 3. "Der bisher unter dem Titel 'König des Lichts' angekündigte Film...der neue Film für die neue Zeit"
Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 550, (1917), S. 15-17. Rezension aktueller Filme. Interessant ist, dass die russische Gesellschaft filmisch thematisiert wird. Karl Schneider,...