Seven brief shellbursts over open ground or the remains of houses, all medium or long shots with no figures visible. Presumably Western Front during the First World War.
Massey and Ward are seen with the acting divisional commander, Brigadier-General F N Johnston (Major-General Russell was on sick leave in England) and accompanied by Brigadier-General G S Richardson, ...
Gunners of 51st (Highland) Division enter by ladder a temporary shelter they have constructed in a large overturned water tower at Riencourt near Bapaume, Western Front, 5 January 1918.
Clémenceau uses neither helmet nor gasmask. He begins at a senior officers' headquarters and goes down into the trenches to talk to the troops.
Newsreel item on Prime Minister Clémenceau visiti...
The damage is fairly minor, involving houses with a wall missing and similar ruins. British soldiers walk through the ruins and a marching column comes down the street. A wagon-load of British troops ...
I. The first reel shows men of the Indian Corps (including British soldiers) in France in January 1916. It is taken unaltered, in a slightly re-edited form, from IWM 202 INDIAN TROOPS AT THE FRONT. II...
A French soldier leads a wounded German prisoner "stupefied by the force of the French bombardment" to the rear along a railway track. A French soldier holds up for the benefit of the camera a number ...
(Reel 13) After the opening with 'Justice', the episode consists entirely of unrelated scenes of the Western Front. Scottish troops in long-shot carrying barbed wire. The officer of a tunnelling compa...
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