36 244 výsledků v rámci Organizace Imperial War Museums
The headmaster accompanies the two officers (Dimmer is described, incorrectly, as a captain) as they inspect the cadets in the school grounds. The cadets then march past.; Newsreel item on Brigadier-General G H C Colomb and Lieutenant J H S Dimmer VC visi…
Men of the Royal Engineers, watched by three officers (one of them a colonel with a staff armband) assemble a Nissen hut, which is described as being "cool in summer and warm in winter" and as housing twenty-four men.; A film on the assembly of …
Machado with President Poincaré at Verdun inspects the troops, and presents the Mayor of Verdun with the Order of the Tower and the Sword. The two presidents enter through the defences of the city and tour round them by car. They go on to the Aisne area, …
The banks of the Neuville Canal, near Rheims, are lined with damaged houses. The glass factory at Neuvillette is reduced to rubble and a few walls. Old German dugouts and fortifications cover the area east of Saint Quentin. One small fort near Courcy is o…
I. 'SOUTH LONDON HEROES. Dr. Taylor the Bishop of Kingston unveils a War Shrine in memory of local heroes at St. Mark's Kennington'. Boy Scout band marches through the gates to Saint Mark's - Oval tube station is in the background. A proce…
Sarrail, with an escort of lancers in parade dress, rides past a guard of French soldiers and through an improvised arch ("arc de triomphe"), half-silhouetted against the sea. Sarrail arrives at Lembet Camp, and is met by the commander of the Br…
(Reel 1) Australian 2nd Division at outdoor physical training and Swedish drill, followed by bayonet training and Lewis machine gun practice, probably in 'W' training area, Bouvelinghem, August 1917. 18-pounder field guns of 2nd Division (?) come …
There is a large crowd with a number of policemen, milling about and uncertain. The captions say they are ignoring pacifist speeches, but this is not obvious.US Navy sailors enter one horse-drawn charabanc in London, and soldiers enter another. King Georg…
The White Star liner SS Baltic comes into Liverpool dock at 9.30am, carrying the American party. Waiting for its arrival are the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Liverpool, Rear-Admiral Stileman (the commander of naval forces at the port), General Sir Pitc…
Some of the women work driving or doing maintenance work on RAF cars and lorries. One woman changes the tyre on a staff car, but is unable to get the inner tube detached from the tyre, even with the help of another woman. A male groundcrew member finally …
The film consists solely of a series of animated jokes, drawn and lettered directly onto the screen by "our famous artist". The artist's hand is shown (speeded up) as a scene is drawn with a brush, and then inhabited by animated cut-outs, mo…
The various dignitaries arrive by car for the ceremony. Prominent are Lloyd George and General Jan Smuts. At the end of the service the people leave.The King inspects the parade of Marines. There is a marchpast of cadets in their blue uniforms. The King t…
(Reel 1) The crew of airship SSZ28 prepares for a flight. As they wait, seated in the open gondola, they are handed a basket of carrier pigeons, the pilot is given his charts and orders, and an armourer fits two 16-pound bombs, one on either side of the g…
A posed group of the regiment's officers, six lying down, at least eleven standing up. These include the commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel A L Hadow, and the second-in-command, Lieutenant-Colonel J Forbes-Robertson, who was in command on 14 April…
Gurkhas in a trench prepare for the assault and attack. They are probably 3/3rd Battalion, the Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, before the fall of Gaza on 18 November 1917. This is followed by a sequence of 8-inch howitzers being taken over a bridge at Belah…
A piledriver on the canal bank builds a landing stage. A road swing bridge across the canal on the section between Béthune and Givenchy opens to let IWT barge AS 174 pass through. Two mobile cranes, one marked IWT 32, unload roadfill material from the bar…
Parties of the Irish Guards with Royal Engineers of either 55th Company or 76th Company RE carry coils of wire past defences and over the Yser Canal by a small footbridge. They are followed by Grenadier Guards and by men of the RAMC returning with wounded…
The men are drawn up on parade for inspection. The Prince of Wales and inspecting officers move round them quickly, mainly backs to the camera.; Men of the City Imperial Volunteers (CIV) being inspected at the Albany Barracks, Regents Park, London, by Edw…
(Reel 1) The full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orléans. 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 retre…
The Emperor stands with members of his court, including Prince Rainer, waiting outside one of his palaces. Coaches arrive and the party drives off. The coaches arrive at Bad-Ischl. The Emperor and the King of Bavaria get out of the first coach, and the Ki…
Franz Josef walks with the mayor among the cheering crowds. His entourage, including Adjutant Lobkovitz, follows at a respectful distance. The Emperor walks past an exhibition of various cultures, halting beside a Japanese booth and one of Herzegovinian m…
Empress Zita's carriage drives past the War Ministry towards Saint Mathias' Church, the magnates of Hungary dipping their banners in salute as it passes. Outside the church, as the ceremony goes on, the magnates, including Herzog Czernin, wait. Zi…
The paintings or photographs follow in quick succession. First, Franz Josef as a young man, dissolving to him as an old man. His villa at Bad-Ischl. Wilhelm II of Germany with Franz Josef. Franz Josef with his grandson Otto. A symbolic 'Death' cro…
A training exercise on gently rolling slopes begins with 77mm field guns and trench mortars opening the bombardment, joined by light howitzers. An intercut scene of Austro-Hungarian troops walking down a damaged street. Back with the exercise, the bombard…