The Higher Invention Committee examines the Chilowsky shrapnel to increase the power of projectiles.
A group of officers and civilians attends the assembly and test-firing of the 240mm Trench Mortar.
The department of inventions, studies, and technical experiments on powders and explosives carries out test explosions off Toulon. The technical and scientific team prepares the experiment aboard a bo...
Soldiers from the Russian army have set up an encampment and are eating on the outskirts of a forest, in thick snowfall. Near a village, cannons are fired. Men, women, and children, on their way into ...
May 1916. A large detachment of prisoners arrives at the Souilly (Meuse) camp. The detachment stands out, with prisoners from Alsace, Poland and Denmark. Featuring: A panorama of the camp and its wall...
During World War I, in Reval on November 10, 1915, Tsar Nicolas II inspects a submarine crew.
November 11, 1915, in Riga (?), Tsar Nicolas II inspects regiments of Siberian skirmishers who then march past the Emperor, performing a few acrobatics with their horses. At the end, the imperial fami...
Aboard a small boat pulled by a tugboat in the Toulon harbor, Jules-Louis Breton and some members of the Invention Department Technical Engineering Committee try out underwater goggles to find a subma...
Wide shot of a café filled with Austrian officers. Some are sitting at tables and others are standing in the background, most of them hold glasses in their hands. Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandl...
Wide shot of an office. Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík) in the uniform of an Austrian officer sits at a desk and gazes at the nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová), who is standing on the...
Medium shot of an Austrian soldier standing with an Austrian colonel (Jaroslav Marvan), Dr. Šrámek (František Smolík), and Lieutenant Rjepkin (Vladimír Borský). The soldier is pointing his bayon...
Wide shots of an office. A group of seven Austrian officers (fifth from left is actor Jaroslav Marvan) stand at the door and look at Dr. Šrámek (actor: František Smolík), who is standing behind a ...
Wide shot of a hospital room with a group of standing patients and three military privates. One of the privates, infantryman Tlamicha (actor: Theodor Pištěk), stands in the middle and conducts as th...
Wide shot of a church interior that has been converted into a military hospital. Wounded soldiers sit or lie on hospital beds lined up along the walls. Other patients sit at the two tables standing in...
Wide shot of a hospital room where doctors are making rounds. On the left are tables with bread and carafes of water. Chairs are standing around the tables. Five doctors stand in the middle of the roo...
Wide shot of a hospital corridor. Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) stands in the middle of the corridor clasping hands with Corporal Bartoněk (actor: Jiří Vondrovič), whose other arm...