A patriotic film tinged with humor and sentimentalism. Stock footage (the crowded town, the departure of warships) and reconstructed war scenes in the desert are part of the second half about th...
Between 28-30 December 1917, Padua suffered three air raids by Austrian aircraft. After the first, The Times of London reported:"December 29. : Yesterday evening at 9 p.m. enemy airmen, true to their...
Theodore Roosevelt gives an open air speech in support of the war to a crowd of 5,000. He is shown in close-up as he speaks, face contorted with emotion. He is followed by a recruiting officer, who sh...
Both the fête and the film stress the fact that the Duchess was American. The children present her with a bouquet in their school playground. She addresses them while a child waves a US flag behind h...
Gompers, President of the American Workers' Federation, and Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, enter the hall where the congress is taking place, along with the delegates. Hughes poses beside women ...
I. 'GENERAL Pétain. The French Commander-in-Chief receives a bouquet from a school girl. Decorating the Flag of the 410th Regiment of Infantry.' A woman approaches Pétain and gives him a written pap...
An episode of the glorious patriotic series, born after the Armistice: the martyrdom of a girl from Marcinelle, shot by a German soldier because she threw her brioche at a starving soldier in captivit...
The women work out of doors. One woman cuts off pieces of dough for loaves, a second weighs the pieces and a third rolls them into spheres. After baking, the women carry the trays out and loosen the l...
Three families on the villiage green after the mobilization. From the left Mrs. Bártová and her son, Bárta (laborer), Janda (smith) and Tomeš (farmer) pledge a loyalty to the idea of Slavonic unit...
Three families on the public green after mobilization. From the left: Mrs. Bártová, Bárta and his son, Janda and his family, Tomeš and his family. Travel packages in the foreground.