The location is a town behind the Western Front. The conscripts, still in civilian clothes, march forward with US soldiers to lay wreaths on the graves of French and US soldiers.Outside the cathedral ...
Refugees watch horsed transport move down a road by a shell dump. The gunners attend to their 155mm howitzers. Lorries move up another road. Gunners check that a 155mm Schneider gun is properly limber...
The Marquis, as a descendant of de Rochambeau, watches the ceremony. The actual presentation is made by the Marquise, watched by a number of civilians. Following the presentation the regiment marches ...
The film opens with a French and US soldier shaking hands, fading into a statue of Lafayette with Washington. Scenes of American troops disembarking at a harbour to substantiate the claim that there a...
Franchet d'Esperey is met from his train by various military representatives of the Allies, British, Italian and Serbian. Franchet d'Esperey goes on with his staff to review part of the French conting...
The formal ceremony takes place at the general's headquarters. He pins decorations on the standards of seven regiments, including that of 21st Battalion, Chasseurs (?). In Châlons, close to the headq...
Men of XXXIV Corps on a German railway line through the Bois de Loges captured intact on 12th August along with a derailed goods train and a dump of shells, mainly 77mm calibre. German prisoners, some...
Some of the troops line a trench, others a sunken road. Engineers of 3rd (Marne) Division build a light bridge over the river. Transport crosses a stone bridge as the sappers continue to repair it. A ...
Still from "Eugen Onegin"
Szene aus "Die Claudi vom Geiserhof"
Szene aus "Das Geheimnis des Ingenieurs Branting"
Szene aus "Westfront 1918"
Paul Wegener
Szene aus "Westfront 1918"
Lyda Salmonova
Paul Wegener (sitting) in "Der Student von Prag" (1913)
Gefahren bei der Aufnahme von Schlachtenfilms, Der Kinematograph, 443, (1915), S. 19. Die Annahme, dass viele Kriegsaufnahmen gestellt seien, sei unzutreffend. So sei einem Kameramann der Firma Messte...
Dr. N. Hansen, Der Film im Dienste der Gesundheit und Sicherheit des amerikanischen Volkes, Der Kinematograph, 645, (1919). Bericht über den großangelegten Einsatz der Filmtechnik in den USA.
Die Liquidation der "Bufa", Lichtbildbühne, 50, (1918), S. 9-10. Reportage anlässlich der geplanten Auflösung des Bild-und Filmamtes. Zusammenfassung ihrer Leistung, die mit ihrem Gründer verglich...