Paris, in September and October 1918. Captured Drahen balloons are displayed in the Tuileries Garden and on the Champs-Elysées. On the boulevards, Parisians can see the advances on the western front ...
The Prince of Wales leaves a house to enter a car. A steam pump in operation by a canal lock, probably the Yser Canal. Troops, possibly new arrivals, entering billets. A field kitchen. Soldiers diggin...
At Fourth Army headquarters, Querrieu Château, on 15 April 1917 General Henry Rawlinson shows the visiting generals some captured German trench mortars and a new Mark I Female tank. Leading the Spani...
(Reel 1) The full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orléans. In various stages the map shows the five main phase lines of the war: the furthest German advance of 191...
The film opens with rolling fields, corn stacks at regular intervals. Soldiers line up for an open-air pay parade. Walking wounded come up a hill towards the camera, followed by some stretcher cases, ...
A nursing home behind the lines with Jules Copin, his wife and child, and two blind aunts, led by two nurses. Copin was a French soldier captured by the Germans in September 1914 who escaped and was h...
The funeral of a nurse killed when one of the British military hospitals in France was bombed (deliberately, according to the film) by the Germans in their March offensive. The caption style which is ...
I. (Reel 1) Winter training for British troops. Infantry guns and Highlanders move in columns along the roads up to the snow covered trenches. Hot soup is brought to troops in the trenches. A dawn 'st...
31113 - Courcelles (Oise, Picardie) - The church Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
31116 - In the Forest of Argonne - A machine gunner (possibly during the Battle of the Argonne Forest in 918) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
31112 - Mailly - Russian troups (Mailly-Maillet, Somme, Picardie)
32989 - Argonne - Clermont in ruins Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
21929 On the move Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
31101 - Craonne - Shell hole (Aisne, Picardie) Stereoscopic glass plate from a private collection in Alsace-Lorraine.
23220 Chauny - Une rue (Département Aisne, Picardie)
23220 Chauny - A street (Aisne, Picardie)
0420 - Bois des Loges forest - Canon de 240 (Santerre, Picardie)
Prager Filmberichte,
Das LBB Kinoprogram,
Film-Kurier, 123/12
The Thuringian Government applied for revocation of permitting of WESTFRONT 1918 at the censorship headquarters in Berlin.The application was accepted. The film was outright banned.
Kinemathograph, 118/24