[GERMAN NEWSREEL ITEMS] [Allocated]


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  • Weitere Titel: [GERMAN NEWSREEL ITEMS] [Allocated]
  • Jahr: 1915
  • Dauer: 7 mins
  • Beschreibung: Two hundred Russian officers captured at the battle near Lyck, and dressed in winter uniform, move under German guard past wooden building. Other prisoners at the same place include a Russian Orthodox priest in black cassock and, according to the caption, the captured Russian divisional commander. Some of the reported 65,000 prisoners of the Russian 10th Army fill a large town square dotted with short leafless trees.Caption in German reads "An extremely strongly fortified position, which after heavy fighting was stormed by our troops".Two columns of Austrian and German infantry march side by side across flat wintry plain, demonstrating according to the caption their brotherhood in arms as they pursue the fleeing Russians. German soldiers wearing Pickelhaube helmets rest by snow-covered roadside and line up with their mess tins for food from a field cooker. Small column from Landsturm Cyclist Company in black uniforms push their bicycles across snow-covered plain. Described in the caption as "Polish traders in the rear areas", a family of Semitic appearance offer undentified items for sale to smiling German soldiers congregated outside a thatched house. Smartly dressed Jew proffers tray (of sandwiches ?) to men while young women with baskets converse merrily with other soldiers.
    Composite reel of German newsreel items on Eastern Front in 1915, plus separate items on crashed Zeppelin L31 and Turkish item on Mohammed V.I. British soldiers guard remains of crashed Zeppelin L31 after it had been shot down at Potters Bar on 2 October 1916. Wrecked bows of Mathy's airship lie twisted round oak in mist-shrouded field.II. Sultan Mohammed V of Turkey emerges from building and departs by coach, then is followed by succession of other Turkish dignitaries.III. German Messter Woche newsreel item on Russian prisoners after the Battle near Lyck in East Prussia, February 1915.IV. Misplaced Eiko Woche caption attached to shot of bearded German soldier demonstrating loading of captured British Short Magazine Lee Enfield Mark III with original sling.V. Four Eiko Woche captioned items show Eastern Front scenes, possibly all related to Austro-German autumn offensive of 1915.
  • Schlüsselwörter: EFG1914 / World War I / Mohammed V, Sultan of Turkey / British Army / Imperial Russian Army, Army 10 / Imperial German Army / Imperial German Army, Landsturm & cyclists / Austro-Hungarian Army / German Army / aircraft, German - airship: Zeppelin L31 & [captured] & [wrecked] / aircraft, British (?) - airship: Mathy's airship (?) / prisoners of war, Russian - movement / weapons, British - smallarm: SMLE rifle & [impressed] / economics, Polish general - commerce / society, German military - sustenance / transport, German military - 2/3 wheel: bicycle / 01/3(4-11).4 / Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, UK / Turkey & Constantinople / Germany & East Prussia / Russia & Russian Poland / Race
  • Anbieter: Imperial War Museums
  • Rechte: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Produktionsfirma: Messter Woche
  • Farbe: Black & White
  • Ton: Without sound

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