WWI - Newsreel Excerpts: French Trenches; Battleships; Belgian Activities; German Navy; Ireland; British Submarines

WWI - French Trenches; Battleships; Belgian Activities; German Navy; Ireland; British Submarines French front line trenches w/ soldiers relaxing & looking over top; troops in trenches smoking and relaxing. 00:19:22 Supply wagons thru mud toward camera w/ line of trucks on road behind headed in opposite direction. 00:20:01 Good shot large battleship w/ camouflage steaming towards & past camera. Same ship w/ two open metal towers makes pass from other direction. 00:20:45 Flash title: Belgian Armoured Cars. Many of these cars have been sent to Russia and assist in holding back the Germans. Men standing next to armored car w/ mounted guns. Men stop & dismount, salute. Car backed up (nitrate decomp). 00:21:17 Flash title: Belgian Motor Cycle Corp. Troops w/ rifles & motorcycles on brick road, possibly bridge stand beside & sit on motorcycles. 00:21:37 Flash title: Joffre. Animation - cartoon using the letters of the name Joffre, turns it into caricature of Joffre rolling up sleeves to beat the Germans. 00:22:45 Flash title: The Deutschland - Germany’s submarine liner arriving at Baltimore, USA. Large cargo submarine / U-Boat w/ two radio antennas on surface w/ crew on deck, escorted by tugs. Various shots w/ city & river bank beyond. German flag & Deutschland - Bremen on aft. CU Captain Paul Koenig; MS crew. Part out of rack. 00:24:10 Unid. troops, possibly Russian. Supply wagons & medics on horseback out of yard. Good shots, almost silhouette, of line of troops along snowy country road. Frost on trees. 00:25:10 Large number of troops (probably Russian on muddy parade ground present arms & march. 00:25:57 Flash title: Ratify or Reject. Dail Eireann meet. Irish Parliament assemble to decide the all important question (Whether to go to war?). 00:26:05 Unid. location. Crowds wait outside building as politicians arrive. Men leave car past camera. LS spectators watch from distance, police. Pan large building w/ columns across front. VIPs out & down steps. 00:27::00 Three British submarines at anchor alongside warship, seen from water. Scotland’s Forth Bridge in BG. Sub HMS K-15 preparing to dive; two funnels fold in CU. Sub dives w/ deck guns in place. Sub underway on surface at speed, much black smoke. Two crew along deck of fast moving sub breaking waves over bow. Officers pose on HMS K- 6 in good MS. WW1; 1910s; Irish Government; War Activities; Naval; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: HMS K-6 commissioned May17; HMS K-15 commissioned 30Apr18.