FEEDING A NATION 1918
Spanish language version of a British official film showing the export of meat and sugar from round the world to Britain, and production of fish and bread in the British Isles, early 1918.
I. Cattle on the plains of ...
Spanish language version of a British official film showing the export of meat and sugar from round the world to Britain, and production of fish and bread in the British Isles, early 1918.
I. Cattle on the plains of ...
(Reel 1) The film starts with U-35 casting off at Cattaro (not Trieste as given) and passing the Austrian fleet at anchor. The crew of the captured SS Parkgate row to U-35 which the English captain boards. The destruction party goes to the ...
Miscellaneous stockshots of leading Allied naval officers, circa 1918, many duplicated from other films.
I. Nelson's Column decorated for a war bonds rally. II. Admiral Sturdee poses with vice-admiral's flag flown at ...
Appeal for the War Work Volunteers, incorporating material from IWM 552, THE WAY OF A SHIP ON THE SEA.
Bringing food from overseas - aerial views of a convoy, escorting cruiser USS Birmingham, and an Astre-Torres ...
Probably 3rd or 4th Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, with its camel battery, the Hong Kong-Singapore Mountain Battery, training on the Palestine Front, early 1917.
The display begins with a ...
An athletics meeting for servicemen and women from Britain, the Imperial forces and the US Army at Stamford Bridge football ground, Fulham, London, 7th September 1918.
The film starts with a posed group of the RAF ...
Jumbled material of British troops on the Mesopotamian Front, 1917-1918.
The material was mainly used in the WITH THE FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA series. It opens with two Holt tractors of 13th ...
British film of the inhabitants of the River Tigris shoreline from Basra to Kut al Amara, mostly filmed from a moving boat, 1918 (?).
I (Reel 1) The opening is filmed from the river. First, ...
The British patrol lies in a slit trench beside its Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost armoured car. The captured spy sits on top of the car's bonnet and is questioned by an interpreter.
I. Newsreel item on the interrogation of a Turkish spy by British ...
I. Newsreel item on British soldiers receiving the surrender of Turkish troops, Mesopotamia, probably May 1918.
The handful of Turks come in from the desert and walk past a British 4.5-inch howitzer. Camels and ...
French language version of a newsreel devoted to a review of the British Empire's war effort, 1914-1918.
The film starts with a declaration that the war was forced upon Britain by "Germany's sinister designs". It ...
The men of the battalion carry a Star of David flag, and despite the rain have drawn quite a crowd to cheer them. They come level with the Mansion House where the Lord Mayor waits to receive them as they pass.
I. Newsreel item on the march of ...