An Indian mountain battery with 10-pounder mountain guns. A British 2.75-inch mountain gun (?) dug in on a hillside under scrim netting. Another 2.75-inch on a raised platform. A 13-pounder anti-aircr...
The material was mainly used in the WITH THE FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA series. It opens with two Holt tractors of 13th Indian Division hauling a 6-inch 30cwt (?) howitzer across the Narim River at Narim K...
A limbered 13-pounder battery followed by a vehicle column. Soldiers standing beside one of the cars in the column hold up a written notice for the camera "Norton's Column". This is probably the colum...
Two 13-pounder anti-aircraft guns firing on raised platforms. An 18-pounder field gun behind scrim netting firing. A senior officer (possibly Major-General C J Briggs) decorating British soldiers. An ...
A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.
When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.
(Reel 1) The film's only caption, "Indian troops marching through Baghdad". They are wearing winter clothing. A British horse-drawn fire-engine leaves for a (staged ?) emergency. On the river there ar...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
I. (Reel 1) Mainly unrelated scenes. A British 6-inch 26cwt (?) howitzer. Turkish prisoners being searched by British troops. A dressing station with Indian orderlies, a motor ambulance and a doctor p...
The ruins of Babylon, concentrating on the Temple of E'Sagilo and the basalt lion statue, including some close-up views of relief carvings and mouldings. This is followed by a panorama of Baghdad, fro...
I. Lieutenant-General Sir William R Marshall, C-in-C of the MEF, filmed wearing a cap, then a sun helmet. II. Major-General W Gillman, chief of staff of the MEF. III. Major-General H T Brooking, comma...
The film starts with a slow pan of a Fly Class river gunboat, probably HMS Caddis Fly. An Insect Class gunboat, HMS Moth, which is larger, is moored by the riverbank, and bombards the area with its 6-...
Ken Duken, Hinnerk Schönemann (v.l.n.r.)
Branislav Trifunovi?, David Thornton (v.l.n.r.)
A British column of mules and wagons moves down a hill road. British soldiers and Greek civilians unloading and stacking stores. French 105mm howitzers, limbered up, moving along a dirt road. British ...
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
The British held Kurkuch only for a few days in 1918. This film shows British soldiers of 38th Brigade entering the town, followed by a number of soldiers being decorated by the commander of III Corps...
The film opens with views of two sets of ruins, one with children playing. This is followed by close-ups, probably in both Babylon and Ctesiphon, of "carvings, depicting biblical incidents, hewn out o...
Probably offcuts from IWM 61 WITH THE FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA. (Reel 1) Camouflaged 60-pounder guns firing dug in. A gunner observing from a perch, possibly close to Ramadi. Indian troops unload sacks f...
I (Reel 1) The opening is filmed from the river. First, Ezra's Tomb, a landmark at Qurna, about 200 km down river from Kut, followed by Qurna itself. The boat continues downstream, passing several sma...
(Reel 1) Russian, or possibly Armenian, soldiers assisted by British troops to fire a 76.2mm Russian field gun. A wounded soldier on a stretcher is loaded into a lorry. A group of Armenian soldiers, o...
An Indian mountain battery with 10-pounder mountain guns. A British 2.75-inch mountain gun (?) dug in on a hillside under scrim netting. Another 2.75-inch on a raised platform. A 13-pounder anti-aircr...