(Reel 1) The film comes from two cameras. For the exterior scenes of delegates arriving at the Foreign Office the first camera is positioned low on the steps beside which the official cars stop. Few o...
I. 'Admiralty Official Film "CLEARED FOR ACTION" Looking aft on a super Dreadnought of our great battle fleet which is cleared for action night and day.' LS aft down starboard side of quarterdeck of a...
The men are in civilian clothes but march in formation and carry staves or other weapons. The captions say that these "misguided" men should be fighting for the British in the war for civilisation, an...
Compilation of newsreel items, showing a portrait the era 1900-1940, originally from the archives of Gaumont Actualités, Gaumont British and Haghe Film.
I. The film is outspoken, "The evidence - both documentary and otherwise - is now ample to prove that Germany forced this great and terrible War upon humanity to secure for herself the domination of t...
The film emphasises the pre-war uniqueness of Britain, rich, insular, with a strong trading position and a free democracy united under the constitutional monarchy. The only pre-war violence comes in t...