War news: trying out a new gas mask that "goes on in a second" and a speed test; visit by Raymond Poincaré in Noyon and in the surrounding villages; the Prince of Wales presents the Badge of the Orde...
The French merchant fleet: port traffic in Le Havre and Rouen, sending off a cargo ship and a submarine in Cherbourg, and the artillery equipment of commercial ships. Defense of the Adriatic coastline...
Panorama of Château-Thierry, liberated but in ruins, visited by Raymond Poincaré who is accompanied by Generals Degoutte, Duparge and de Mondésir. The villages of Dormans and Chatillon. English eng...
War news: in the Macedonian mountains with the first Serbian army, General Berthelot in Romania, Portuguese troops in an English port, costumed cavalcade organized by resting soldiers, swimming at Mal...
Sammies Life in France : Wartime news. Daily life at the American Camp in Gondrecourt-le-Château: laundry, meals, building barracks, taking care of a mascot (a bottle-fed lion cub), gymnastics, and t...
This is the romanticized story of Louise de Bettignies, who was a spy and heroin of the First World War. In October 1914, in Roubaix, Geneviève de Vandeville delivers mail in secret. Brilliant and ef...
The 4th regiment of tirailleurs (specialized infantrymen) parade through a village (1): nouba music, weapons in the square, assault exercises, the "horse-man" celebration and dance, juggling with rifl...
A soldier tells young children, with simple words, the story of the Battle of Verdun.