The men sit at a table in the open air, using a loading machine attached to the table to fill the cloth belts.A heavy gun fires, completely concealed by a tent with only its barrel showing, but possib...
In Trafalgar Square a big placard has been placed across the plinth of Nelson's Column, reading "England Expects This Day That Every Man Will Do His Duty". People crowd the square. Around the plinth a...
Troops train with the gas-hood, which fits rucked up around the cap like a cap-band. The men crouch behind a barricade of logs. Smoke, representing gas, drifts over them and they pull down the hoods. ...
Sarrail, with an escort of lancers in parade dress, rides past a guard of French soldiers and through an improvised arch ("arc de triomphe"), half-silhouetted against the sea. Sarrail arrives at Lembe...
The film describes the prisoners as the "result of the great French victory in Champagne". They are led into a large cultivated area, standing in 'blocks' of a few hundred men. Dragoons, apparently in...
The men of the division march past Lloyd George and Hughes (who is in uniform). Prominent is the division's kilted regiment, 72nd (Seaforth Highlanders of Canada) Battalion. Lloyd George delivers a sp...
The film's scenes are out of sequence and its title appears nearly half-way through. As it stands, it opens with soldiers filling sandbags and digging a trench line. Scottish troops on the march with ...
Students from Charing Cross Hospital are taken by an open-topped bus to Richmond Rugby Football Club grounds, where, most of them in fancy dress, they hold a mock rugby match, 'fighting' for a small f...
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...
Behne, Adolf. „Kino und Geschichtsklitterung.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 1 (1913/1914): 15-17. A.B. beschreibt den historischen Film als Genre, das wie g...
"Hu-hu ! Wir schröcklich ! (mit'n „ö“)", Der Kinematograph, 490, (1916), S. 20(?). Entgegnung auf die Behauptungen des Abgeordneten Werner-Giessen, die Flut an Krimis in den Kinos schade der Mor...
Messter Film GmbH, Zum 70. Geburtstag Generalfeldmarschalls von Hindenburg, Der Kinematograph, 561, (1917), S. 18-19.