Seven newsreel items, mainly about the First World War and mainly from France.
The merchant vessel has run aground on the shoreline just below the cliffs. Nothing else is in sight.
Newsreel item on the wreck of the SS Boston at Filey, Yorkshire, December 1914.
While their French Army guards watch, the German prisoners work breaking rocks and shovelling soil, probably for road-fill.
Newsreel item on German prisoners at work in Brittany, early 1915.
The suffragettes work up ladders on a hoarding, painting various signs encouraging votes for women. They are calm and happy, there is no sense of violence.
Newsreel item on suffragettes in New Yo...
The area, a timber-yard, has been completely flattened by the explosion. The captions stress that this was not the result of a bombardment or air raid.
Newsreel item on an explosion in the Rue To...
Various newsreel items from 1914. Car races, boxing match, departure of recruits to Africa and protests against 'Home Rule'.
Various newsreel items from the First World War. Among other things about a Dutch internment camp for Belgian soldiers.
Two hundred Russian officers captured at the battle near Lyck, and dressed in winter uniform, move under German guard past wooden building. Other prisoners at the same place include a Russian Orthodox...