German naval officers, sailors and some soldiers wander through the streets of Ostend. A tram passes, pulling a line of freight carriages. At a tram stop a marching band leads a group of soldiers on b...
(Reel 7) The episode starts with 'Justice'. Men of V Corps unload meat from wagons. A butcher of 16th (Irish) Division cuts up the meat. Various types of supplies are moved from rail trucks and loaded...
(Reel 9) The episode starts with 'Justice'. The tank race and demonstration of a tank climbing over a cottage arranged for George V's visit to France in July 1917. Post-war tests of Mark V Star tanks....
(Reel 11) The film-makers state "We think it is well that we should have been given an opportunity in this episode to show you these terrible fields that were trampled by our deathless allies in their...
(Reel 13) After the opening with 'Justice', the episode consists entirely of unrelated scenes of the Western Front. Scottish troops in long-shot carrying barbed wire. The officer of a tunnelling compa...
The Germans are from various branches and include some Austrians. The first camp is a large school or similar institution, with additional wooden huts built on its grounds. One group of officers poses...
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 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.