Seven newsreel items, mainly about the First World War and mainly from France.
The team has set up its Vickers machine gun and is firing out to sea, at a post stuck in the sand. A Belgian officer watches with them, and nearby is a Belgian dog-team for pulling the machine gun.
Students from Charing Cross Hospital are taken by an open-topped bus to Richmond Rugby Football Club grounds, where, most of them in fancy dress, they hold a mock rugby match, 'fighting' for a small f...
Destruction inside the Soissons cathedral and a visit from the President of the Republic soon before the Chemin des Dames offensive. A city is damaged and a bridge is destroyed over the Aisne river. D...
War news: trying out a new gas mask that "goes on in a second" and a speed test; visit by Raymond Poincaré in Noyon and in the surrounding villages; the Prince of Wales presents the Badge of the Orde...
Panorama of Château-Thierry, liberated but in ruins, visited by Raymond Poincaré who is accompanied by Generals Degoutte, Duparge and de Mondésir. The villages of Dormans and Chatillon. English eng...
War news: in the Macedonian mountains with the first Serbian army, General Berthelot in Romania, Portuguese troops in an English port, costumed cavalcade organized by resting soldiers, swimming at Mal...
Sammies Life in France : Wartime news. Daily life at the American Camp in Gondrecourt-le-Château: laundry, meals, building barracks, taking care of a mascot (a bottle-fed lion cub), gymnastics, and t...