Unrelated scenes with no continuity or storyline, mainly taken from the GERMAN OFFENSIVE series of Spring 1918, showing the British sector of the Western Front between March and April 1918. An additio...
(Reel 1) A working class back street slum, with the men at war and the women largely unable to cope with growing children. Lizzie has a small baby that her husband Jim, a corporal serving in France, h...
An actress "Britannia" draws aside a curtain over a screen, flanked by silhouettes of two British soldiers. On the screen appears a genuine scene of refugees fleeing out of Belgium in 1914, followed b...
Opening caption urges maximum effort "if the Hun is to be beaten". Panning medium shot across sheds. Scenes of shipyard activity. Medium shot from water as merchant hull is launched. Cartoon sequence ...
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...
Propaganda documentary produced under Fascism by the National Insurance Institute to promote life insurance. The river Piave, symbol of the First World War, is described by the monuments, plaques and ...
The film traces the history of Italy from 1200 until the advent of fascism. The fragment presented, which is the last part of the film, begins May 15 1915 with the begin of the First World War and en...
The documentary shows the action of the commander Luigi Rizzo who, on December 9, 1917, enters the port of Trieste and buries the battleship Wien. The film was used for the propaganda of the whole Ita...
An illustrative part: soldier on fainting horse with the slogan: "Remember your brothers on battlefield!"
An ilustrative part: Unknown soldier chokes Austrian eagle.
An illustrative part: Poster with the slogan: "Czechoslovaks! Join our free Colors!" and flags with provincial emblems.
An illustrative part: Poster with the slogan: "The God´s fighters - Czechoslovak army in France" and soldier on horseback with Hussite flag.
National Film G.m.b.H. "Wir Barbaren", Der Kinematograph, 439, (1915), S. 20-22. Rezension einer Komödie, die die französische Propaganda gegen Deutschland aufgreift.
Rundschau, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV,1, (1914/1915), S. 34-41. Berichte über Firmen, die mit Pathé Frères in Verbindung stünden und deshalb boykottiert we...
Jean Th. Lommen, Film- und Kinoschund, Der Kinematograph, 690/91, (1920), S. 35-41. Die Presse äußere sich vor allem negativ über den Film. Die Kritik der Kinogegner richte sich vor allem gegen Kri...
Propaganda-Filme, Der Kinematograph, 571, (1917), S. 19-20. Deutsche Propagandafilme seien noch immer den feindlichen unterlegen. Man müsse zu denselben Waffen greifen, wie es die Feinde tun und die ...
Julius Sternheim, Propaganda-und Aufklärungsfilme, Der Kinematograph, 592, (1918), S. 12-14. Propagandafilme müssten maßgeblich eine Botschaft verfolgen, was sie oftmals zwangsläufig langatmig mac...
Notes on film’s potential in depicting reality with emphasis on some reels on WWI.