The "Deuxième Bataille Offensive de Verdun" opens with a bombardment. A 145mm naval gun firing under tarpaulin, showing its loading mechanism clearly. Other guns join in - a 155mm heavy howitzer, a 7...
I. Queenstown. Low-angle medium shot from small craft crossing bows of three US destroyers moored together in the harbour with a paddle minesweeper - two of the ships are USS Duncan (46) and USS Stere...
Medium long shot silhouette off starboard bow of HMS Malaya steaming with guns trained over the beam - the cameraship changes its bearing during the sequence from starboard bow to dead ahead to port b...
The King and Queen arrive in Calais to start the visit. The King inspects war trophies at Bailleul with General Sir Herbert Plumer, then goes on to watch a tank demonstration and talk with a group of ...
(Reel 1) The film stresses that it shows normal RAF life and has not deliberately selected its scenes. It begins with a training camp for pilots in France. New pilots arrive and are brought from the s...
The daughter of the farmer András Balogh, Juli, is confused by the sight of a circus, she leaves her native village secretly and enters into an engagement with the dance master at a night club in the...
The footage, filmed on May 30, 1915, records a WWI intercession procession before the Inner City Parish Church, the Basilica, and the Parliament. The creators of the film concentrated on the famous pe...
I. The build-up to war from the earliest days of film record, showing the various crowned heads of Europe.II. The Balkan wars of 1912, the development of Germany's Navy, and the inauguration of Presid...
Medium shot of three privates: Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk), yawning Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta), and smiling Vyskočil (actor: Břetislav Hrstka).
Medium close-up of the wounded Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič) with bandaged eyes and an arm in a cast with Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová, in profile).
Wide shot of men sitting at a table in a hospital room. Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is standing at the head of the table with raised arms, speaking to the group. Sitting to the left of him is Vy...
Wide shot depicting the activity in front of a stopped train. Combat medics are carrying Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) from the train on a stretcher; Rjepkin is covered with a blanket....
View of a hospital room. Infantryman Sakař (actor: Jindřich Plachta) is lying on a bed with a bandaged neck and closed eyes. Leaning over him to the left is infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Piš...
Wounded Austrian soldier accompanied by nurses and military doctors.
Wounded soldiers rest on camp beds in front of the hospital building.
A military doctor shows a wounded soldier to a Red Cross delegation.