Ambulances in the main square at Marcoing shortly after its capture, 20 November. There is no great damage to the square apart from broken windows, a hall with the sign "Justice de Paix" over it and a...
The film starts with a cartoonist drawing figures which then animate themselves. The Kaiser sharpens a knife to carve up the world, the figures "1914" flying from the sparks. He and Franz Josef gloat ...
Two girl fitters of Queen Mary's Auxiliary Ambulance Corps doing maintenance work on the wheels and the engine of their ambulance. (Rather staged, the girls are trying very hard not to be camera-consc...
The young 'mother', at a table, begins her letter, "dear son" (acted). British troops unload sacks of mail for France at one of the Channel ports. The mail is taken across the Channel by ship and unlo...
6th Battalion, the Black Watch of 51st (Highland) Division collecting the men's packs between the Bois de Reims and St-Imoges, having just come out of line on 24 July. 1/5th Battalion, the Devonshire ...
Men of 34th Sikh Pioneers digging a model trench, firstly marking out the ground with white tape. Gurkhas route marching through the rain. Men of 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders also on the march....
Newsreel item on British soldiers clearing up debris in Béthune after the German retreat, Western Front, September 1918.
Wrecks of crashed or damaged British aircraft arrive at the salvage depot on lorries, and the larger pieces are lifted off by crane. One almost complete fuselage is a Bristol F2B Fighter. The machines...
Szene mit Jackie Monnier (Mitte)
59 x 84 cm
Szene mit Gustav Diessl (rechts)
Claus Clausen (rechts)
Fritz Kampers (Mitte), Hans Joachim Moebis (rechts)
Hans Joachim Moebis, Gustav Diessl (rechts)
Gustav Diessl, Carl Balhaus, Hanna Hoessrich (v.l.n.r.),
Fritz Arno Wagner, Fritz Métain (links), G.W. Pabst (Mitte), André Saint-Germain (1.v.r.) (Dreharbeiten)
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