Werbung für die 9. Kriegsanleihe. Spielszene: Ein Bürger zählt sein Geld in den Sparstrumpf. In seinem Zimmer erscheint ein altes Weib, das ihm eine Zauberflasche gibt. Als er den Inhalt auf einen ...
It is September 1915, and the Schneider company is manufacturing a tank with crawler tracks, designed in collaboration with Colonel Estienne. On February 25, 1916, 400 tanks are ordered. The construct...
The film consists of unedited, unrelated scenes of Mark I and Mark IV tanks, at the Tank Corps training school at Bovington, on the Western Front, and in Palestine. It opens with unarmed Mark IV tanks...
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...
In June 1919 at the Mailly military camp, tanks carry out traction tests on rough terrain while Marshal Pétain looks on.
Schlacht bei Soissons und Reims 26.05. – 05.06.1918 ( 3. deutsche Offensive). Besuch von Kronprinz Wilhelm von Preußen bei einem Armee-Kommando; Probefahrt mit erbeuteten englischen Tanks; deutsche...
The battle at Armentières. Mortars and artillery bombarding English positions on 9th April 1918; shell impacts on the horizon (barrages), mortar explosions; BUFA film crew advances into battle area, ...
The captions are violent: "From July 1st our offensive never slackened; town after town fell to the assaults of our indomitable troops." A map of the Flers-Courcelette area. Male and Female Mark I tan...