Unedited film of the Nebi-Nusa festivals, the arrival of the International Zionist Commission, and the visit of Egyptian 1st Infantry Regiment to the Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem, April 1918.

This is the unedited ...

III. A study of the inhabitants as they pick almonds, including a lady "of low caste" (according to the shotsheet) a girl and a veiled lady of high caste. It is not clear whether these are Jewish or Moslem women.

IV. Some of the prisoners are ...

"AFRICA WORLD WAR COMFORTS SERVICE. Pleasure trips on the Thames. June 1918 (10). Wounded Springboks at Windsor and Eton College (13). The 'Sunbury Belle' arrives at Windsor Wharf. Typical scenes on board. Little friends entertain our ...

Unedited film of General Sir Edmund Allenby's arrival in Cairo following the Armistice with Turkey, November 1918.

The film may be out of time-sequence. It shows General Allenby talking to senior officers (none ...

Mixed film of British, Indian and Jewish forces, including the meeting of General Allenby with Chaim Weizmann in Jerusalem, Palestine Front, May 1918.

(Reel 1) An auction of British Army horses to civilians. A troop ...

The procession of the Manunal leaving Cairo, August 1918.

The Manunal was a covering mat or carpet for the Kaa'ba outside the Great Mosque at Mecca. Very highly decorated, a new one was made in Cairo each year and ...

Jumbled material of the British forces on the Palestine Front, 1918 (?).

All very dark, poor quality film. It includes scenes of Gurkhas in trenches, 60-pounder guns firing, British soldiers walking through a lemon ...

Somewhat muddled footage principally showing the ruins at Baalbec, and the arrival of British troops in a middle-eastern town, presumably also in Palestine, 1918.

Views of the ruins of Baalbec, with occasional ...

Unedited film of British, Indian and Australian forces, mainly playing various sports, Palestine Front, July 1918.

Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are ...

Cartoon of the British military and industrial contribution to the Western Front up to the end of 1917.

The film starts with a cartoonist drawing figures which then animate themselves. The Kaiser sharpens a knife to ...

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 ...

Portrait shots of British generals of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force and of General Sir Edmund Allenby, 1918.

I. Lieutenant-General Sir William R Marshall, C-in-C of the MEF, filmed ...

Gurkha and British troops during the Third Battle of Gaza, Palestine Front, November 1917.

Gurkhas in a trench prepare for the assault and attack. They are probably 3/3rd Battalion, the Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, ...

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 full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orlans. In various stages the map shows the five main phase lines of the war: the furthest German advance of 1914, the line at the end of 1914, the line after the ...

"Mosque and picturesque scenes in Palestine now occupied by the British". Mosque of Omar and surrounding buildings. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (60ft).

Scenes of Gaza and its surroundings shortly after its capture by British forces, Palestine Front, November 1917.

(Reel 1) A panorama of Gaza under British occupation. (The two ships described as shallow draft ...

I. Newsreel item on the entry of General Allenby into Jerusalem and the reading of his proclamation, Palestine, 11 December 1917.

I. Views of the honour guard at the Jaffa Gate, composed of English, Welsh, Scottish, ...

An RAMC doctor, probably Major Paterson, who was doctor in Hebron for 31 years before the war, talking to a group of Arabs; followed by a slow panorama of Hebron, ending at the mosque. Palestine Front, 1918.

Notes

Title: this is taken ...

The visit of the Duke of Connaught to the Imperial School of Instruction at Zeitoun to review the cadets, part of his tour of Egypt and the Palestine Front between January and March 1918.

The camp prepares with the ...

Aspects of nature and industrial life on Honduras.

Opening with scenes from Swan Island, the film shows two Europeans offloading supplies from a small motorboat with the help of a Honduran. Shots of fish and crabs are followed by ...

I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.

II. Arab workers filling bottles and operating machinery in the British ...

ETHNOLOGY. Some of the customs of the Swazi.

"Killing the bull" ceremony for rain. The old warriors of the tribe dance and chant inside the cattle kraal watched by young women (24-82); the young warriors dance in front of the young ...

Arrival of the editors of leading Indian newspapers, on a goodwill tour run by the Ministry of Information, at their London hotel, 11th October 1918.

The party of five, with a guide, leave the front of the Hyde Park ...

Unedited film of boats on the River Nile carrying compressed horse fodder ('tiffin'), Egypt, 1918 (?).

The first boat, a steamer, tows two barges, followed by a Victoria Shipping Line steamer 'pushing' its barges. A ...

A secret agent spies for the Kaiser's Germany as a double agent, but is able to clear his name with the woman he loves.

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 ...

The award of decorations to British and Indian soldiers in Kurkuch, Mesopotamian Front, 7-11 May 1918.

The British held Kurkuch only for a few days in 1918. This film shows British soldiers ...

The ruins of Babylon and the town of Baghdad under British occupation, 1918 (?).

The ruins of Babylon, concentrating on the Temple of E'Sagilo and the basalt lion statue, including some ...

Everyday life in Mesopotamia under the British occupation, 1918.

(Reel 1) The film's only caption, "Indian troops marching through Baghdad". They are wearing winter clothing. A British horse ...

British and Indian troops on the Mesopotamian Front, April 1918.

(Reel 1) A poor quality scene showing a company of Burma Sappers building a trestle bridge over the River Diyala on 16 April. ...

Short film of Indian sappers laying a railway line, Mesopotamian Front, 1918.

Flatcars carry the rails, sleepers and the troops themselves forward, as they build the line across the desert. ...

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 ...

Scenes on the Cape to Cairo railway.

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 ...

Semi-contemporary material of the first British forces in France and the creation of the massed armies in Britain at the start of the First World War, 1914-1916.

Arrival of the Indian Corps in Marseilles in September ...

A review of the British war effort on all fronts and at home, 1915-1916.

The episode opens with a table showing the increase in personnel of the Army and Navy in the first twelve months of the war. A new merchant ...

I. British troops enter Bethlehem.

I. 'BRITISH IN BETHLEHEM. Our troops headed by a band march into the Historical City of Bethlehem.' Locals look on as troops march through square.

I. King George V decorates members of the Dover Patrol.

I. 'KING & THE DOVER PATROL. H.M. presents medals to gallant skippers of the famous Drifter Patrol.' MS as the King, wearing overcoat and Army uniform, shakes ...

ROMANCE. Donald, the Colonel's son, appears cowardly as the result of torture in Africa. He woos and weds the gipsy Rilka. His gipsy rival persuades her to leave but Donald recovers his nerve and regains Rilka.

R.1. Title and ...

King George V's visit to the British Army in France and Belgium, 1st-9th December 1918.

The King (in Field Marshal's uniform) with the Prince of Wales, General Sir William Birdwood and other officers inspects graves, ...

Everyday life in the Euphrates valley, at the Jewish settlement of Rishon le Zion, and at Hebron and Abraham's Tomb on the Palestine Front, 1917-1918.

I. The film opens with the Hindiya barrage dam across the ...

"Triumph of the Motor Tractor over the tracts of the wilderness in Palestine". Holt tractor pulling limber and men through the desert in Palestine. Filmed by Harold Jeapes (44ft).

Incomplete Issue. Items include:

IN TARGET LAND "Recording hits from guns great and small" (56ft).

THE ETERNAL CAMEL "The desert still defies Man to invent a transport substitute for the camel which marches to War in Palestine ...

Mr John Bennett's visit to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in France, 22-26 June 1918.

(Reel 1) Bennett arrives at Boulogne on 22 June, met by Major H A Timewell and war correspondents H M Beeton and Frederick ...

Spanish language version of a newsreel item on British horsed transport detouring round the dry Wadi Hersi, north of Gaza, since the retreating Turks have blown the bridge, Palestine, November 1917.

Notes

Production: see IWM 651a for ...

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. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language version of a newsreel item on Arab workers in Palestine ...