As part of a Higher Committee organized by the Invention Department, mechanics attach a wheel then couple a gun to Lieutenant Breton's tank.
The Higher Invention Committee attends anti-torpedo test-firing beside a lake.
In July 1916, the 1st corps of the colonial army is deployed and seizes an observation post from the Germans on the front at the Somme. The general has come to take stock of the cannons taken from the...
During the war, from 1914 to 1918, a cable-operated funicular railway built by the company Etcheverry is loaded with boxes of ammunition and tested in the open countryside at ground level and over wat...
In Vincennes, the members of the Studies and Technical Experiments section of the Invention Department attend the test destruction of barbed-wire networks by a Latil tractor. In a meadow on the outski...
An account of the Battle of Verdun through a montage of archive images, to the glory of the soldiers.
Raymond Poincaré visits Russia from July 13 to 23, 1914. Arriving in a yacht, the Tsar and Raymond Poincaré inspect the troops, greet the Empress, then attend a parade of artillery, Cossacks, and th...
In 1921, following the World War I armistice, the Allies occupy a section of German territory in order to obtain war reparations. The French troops are situated in the Rhenish territory, whose first F...
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...