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NURSE CAVELL'S GRAVE AND MEMORIAL [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

Three Australian officers stand with a Belgian officer as escort on the balcony of the prison where Nurse Cavell was held. Next, they stand by the plaque in the prison yard marking the place where she...

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CANADIAN JOURNALISTS AT BRAMSHOT AND WITLEY [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

The divisional commander, Brigadier-General F S Meighan, shows the journalists around the training area. (Very broken film, extremely hard to follow.) The men are engaged in various kinds of training:...

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the YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT [Main]
1917
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- [the BRITISH REGIMENTS] [Allocated Series]

Close-up of a sergeant holding a football marked 2Y&L. Pan over the men of the battalion, lying, sitting or standing informally, with two Lewis machine guns in the front row. Two lance-corporals sitti...

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27TH AND 30TH DIVISIONS [Main]
1919
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) King George V and General Sir Herbert Plumer, commanding Second Army to which the two divisions were attached, are greeted by 30th (Old Hickory) Division commander, Major-General Edward M Lew...

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Father and Son
EYE Filmmuseum (The Netherlands)
Other title(s):
- Il Bon cinese

A short melodrama: the Chinese man Sang Lee takes pity on a white child (Jack). Twenty years later, Jack, now a prominent lawyer, defends his foster father in court from false accusations.

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Lost and Won
1911
EYE Filmmuseum (The Netherlands)
Other title(s):
- Verloren en wedergevonden
- Een Episode uit de petroleumvelden van Californië

When the now-wealthy Jack sees his former lover by chance on the silver screen, he immediately goes looking for her.

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SCENES ON THE EUPHRATES - MESOPOTAMIA [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA (further episode) (?) [related]

I. The film opens with the Hindiya barrage dam across the Euphrates. The local population fish from small circular coracles, called 'sufas', while others carry pots and loads of fish, and wash the fis...

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AMID SNOW AND ICE ON MOUNT TONALE [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) Food, fodder and equipment are unloaded at a railhead freightyard, and put into motorised and horse-drawn vehicles for the trip up to Mount Tonale and the River Piave valley. The convoys move...

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Images
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MESOPOTAMIA - BAGHDAD AND RIVER SCENES [Main]
Imperial War Museums

(Reel 1) The film's only caption, "Indian troops marching through Baghdad". They are wearing winter clothing. A British horse-drawn fire-engine leaves for a (staged ?) emergency. On the river there ar...

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BAGHDAD, BABYLON AND BAALBEC [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- ADVANCE OF THE CRUSADERS INTO MESOPOTAMIA (further episode) (?) [related]

Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.

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CAMELS AND JAFFA [Main]
Imperial War Museums

A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...

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FATHER AND LATHER [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- [FILM TAGS] [Allocated Series]

A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...

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DOUAI AND LILLE [Main]
Imperial War Museums

I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...

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PIGEONS AND SEAPLANES [Main]
Imperial War Museums

A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...

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WOMEN AND THE WAR [Main]
Imperial War Museums

The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...

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BOMBING SCHOOL AND SPORTS [Main]
Imperial War Museums

Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...

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Texts
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SCENES AROUND THE ATLANTIC LINERS 'TUSCANIA' AND 'CALEDONIA' DURING SHORT HOLIDAY CRUISES FROM GLASGOW AND BELFAST
National Library of Scotland

SCENES AROUND THE ATLANTIC LINERS 'TUSCANIA' AND 'CALEDONIA' DURING SHORT HOLIDAY CRUISES FROM GLASGOW AND BELFAST. Shows activities enjoyed by passengers such as deck games, afternoon tea and a fanc...

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AD VITAM
National Library of Scotland

Early photographs depict the history of St. Leonards' School for Girls and the film shows the arrival of girls for a new term by steam train, motor coach and horse-drawn cabs.

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LONDON - BRITISH FACT AND GERMAN FICTION [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- LONDRES - LA VERDAD BRITANICA Y LA FICCION GERMANA (on copy held) [alternative]

I. The film contrasts quotes from a German newspaper given as 'Westphalia Daily News' reporting the damage or destruction of prominent landmarks in the centre of London with film of those places taken...

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the GERMAN RETREAT AND THE BATTLE OF ARRAS [Main]
Imperial War Museums
Other title(s):
- the BATTLE OF ARRAS [alternative]

(Reel 1) The opening shows the destruction near Bapaume and Péronne caused by the German retreat. Buildings have been blown up, trees cut down. A British cyclist patrol is greeted by the population o...

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LILLE NO 1 AND LILLE NO 2 [Main]
Imperial War Museums

I. Columns of British companies march into the city on 18th October. They are Liverpool Irish, otherwise 8th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment) of 57th (West Lancashire) Division. The men carry fl...

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HOSPITAL BOMBED BY GERMANS, AND FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMS [Main]
Imperial War Museums

The wooden huts of the hospital show various bomb blasts but little fire damage. Four coffins, covered in Union Jacks, are wheeled on trollies by soldiers. A single coffin, also covered with a Union J...

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BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN BATHGATE
National Library of Scotland

The work of the Blood Transfusion Association in the Bathgate area, and an appeal to "become a regular donor".

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COLONIAL INFANTRY AND CAVALRY MARCHING ACROSS THE VELDT [Main]
Imperial War Museums

The parade starts and ends with contingents of light horse. In between them are foot soldiers, two companies each with a Maxim gun on a hand cart. All the men are in slouch hats and shirtsleeve order....

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