Montage of intermission intertitles made for movie theaters: a movie director notably conveys his greetings to his clientele from the front.
A woman learns, by letter, that her husband has died gloriously on the battlefield, struck by an enemy bullet while filming news footage on the front. As she weeps and worries about the future of her ...
It is September 1915, and the Schneider company is manufacturing a tank with crawler tracks, designed in collaboration with Colonel Estienne. On February 25, 1916, 400 tanks are ordered. The construct...
Scenes of rural life in Picardie at the beginning of the century: the destruction of shells in open fields, sowing, plowing with a multifurrow plow, harvesting with a sickle, a graduation ceremony, th...
Lefrancois, a father of six, is a soldier. His seventh child is on the way and will be named Victory. Lefrancois cannot remember why he tied a knot in his handkerchief. Although he has received the Wa...
In Courbevoie (Delage factory), workers machining, countersinking, and drilling mechanical parts for weaponry and airplane engines. In Paris (Gaumont), workers manufacture rifle covers and boosters. W...
The Public Health Department was created to put reception and counseling facilities into place--with the American Committee's help-- for parents in difficulty. An American Committee nurse, assisted b...
At the Mailly camp in 1916, Generals Marouchevsky, Lokhvitsky, Gilinsky and Prince Peter of Montenegro inspect the 3rd brigade of the Russian expeditionary force. In Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan) in 1919...
On the set of “Personnel” (1975), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. Scene in the theater. From left: actors Andrzej Siedlecki, unknown person and Juliusz Machulski (standing). Photo: Stefan Kurzyp, blac...
Film still from “The Double Life of Veronique” (1991), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person, actress Ir?ne Jacob in a singing scene at the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Krakó...
On the set of “The Double Life of Veronique” (1991), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person, actress Ir?ne Jacob and the director shoot a scene at the Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic...
On the set of “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person, actors Andrzej Skupień and Joanna Orzeszkowska, assistant director Krzysztof Wierzbicki and actor Jan Skotn...
On the set of “The Scar” (1976), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. From left: unknown person, cinematographer Sławomir Idziak and actor Franciszek Pieczka, center, facing forward. Photo: Stefan Kurzyp,...
On the set of “Personnel” (1975), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski. Film crew at work on set. From left: crew members Mieczysław Sitarz, Ryszard Jaworski, Henryk Strzebiecki, an unknown person, directo...
Commentary on the film and its subject matter (the tribute to Unknown Soldiers lost in World War I).
Notes on 2 documentary films portraying the countrywide tributes to the Unknown Soldiers lost in World War I.