Our HindenburgFilm about Field Marshal General Paul v. Hindenburg on the occasion of his 70th birthday on October 2nd, 1917. Hindenburg and General Erich Ludendorff get into a car and drive to the Kai...
German newsreel items about the First World War.
Several images of Marshall Hindenburg and General Ludendorff: riding on an automobile, among the people, in the headquarters studying the map of occupation in Romania, etc.
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg celebrates his 70th birthday in his headquarters. General Ludendorff, Kaiser Wilhelm II and other personalities attend the event.
(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...
A British soldier walks through a forest of long, hooked metal poles set in concrete, probably as a form of reinforcement. A barbed wire entanglement more than fifty metres deep. An RAMC man emerges f...
A Day with General Field Marshal von HindenburgIntertitle 1: The Field Marshal with his adjutant. Image: Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg on a walk with his adjutant Rittmeister von Pentz; soldier re...
A Word From Hindenburg on War BondsPromotional film calling for subscription to the 5th war bond. Image: Handwritten letter from Hindenburg: "The German people will beat their enemies not only with th...
The main map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt and from Antwerp south to Orléans. First a close-up of the British positions at the end of the First Battle of Ypres. Then the main map showing ...
The cartoonist draws the figures of the Kaiser "Bill" and the Crown Prince "Billie". They play with a U-boat in a water bowl until a cargo ship marked "NOOTRAL" ('neutral' in US pronunciation) blocks ...
Newsreel with items about the festivities in commemoration of the First World War, the closing of Jewish shops and a football match.
The film mainly shows monarchs, including the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I at a military parade in Vienna in 1910, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand walking in the park at Reichenau, the German...
The fatal consequences of accidentally letting the enemy discover secret information are illustrated by an episode set in the trenches. Orders for an attack are passed down from Hindenburg to GHQ to o...
The footage includes war damage in an apparently abandoned town (the sign on a house wall says Mons, Belgium), an airplane landing in a field, zoo animals, a military parade, Austrian Emperor Franz Jo...
Advertising film for the 6th war bond. Mother Froehlich receives a hundred mark bill for her watch at the gold collection point. Mother Froehlich has the streetcar conductor Lehmann give her pennies f...
I. A battery of Field Artillery in medium shot moving rapidly across country, followed by a close-up of the last two guns passing a small hut at the trot. A stationary Medium A Whippet tank (B37, poss...