WWI - Stock Newsreel & Fiction Film Excerpts
Montage: Military officers down steps; roiling clouds; intertitle: Serajevo; staged assassination.
01:00:21 Montage: newspaper headlines: archduke assassinated; calling up troops. Large artillery; headlines re War! Marching troops thru cheering crowds; mounted officers; MCU small boy in full German uniform including Pickelhaube helmet saluting; dog in helmet w/ marching soldiers; woman looking at buttons w/ picture of officer, buys & puts on coat; troops marching, civilians alongside of various nations .
01:01:32 Montage: Artillery crew riding on gun-wagon; field artillery firing; headline Belgium Invaded; troops past destroyed building, thru towns; headline: Germans Start Gas Warfare; large artillery, loaded, fired by gunners wearing gas masks; headline: Germans Loose Unrestricted Submarine Warfare; sub underway on surface, freighter sunk.
01:02:07 Montage: troops fighting, title 1870, various infantry & cavalry charging; President Wilson in office signing papers, text on screen; freighter explodes; headline re US Ship Torpedoed; headlines intercut w/ submarines, sinking freighter.
01:02:47 Montage: Headlined: War Declared - Congress Rushes Resolution; troops on liner waving; soldiers up gangplank; on dock waving; shipboard waving.
01:03:06 Montage: Soldiers leave ship, marching off dock, thru waving crowd lining street; across field, up road & thru destroyed town. Artillery firing; tanks; soldiers out of trench & over the top in smoke & explosions; out of trenches & thru destroyed trees.
01:04:15 German officers receive envelop from messenger: superimposed: “The offier of peace must be transitted immediately . The Army cannot wait another forty-eight hours. - Ludendorff, Oct. 1918.”
01:04:29 Pershing w/ other officers, including one-armed General; Pershing walking w/ two civilians VIPs followed by French officers MCU Pershing & French officer; CU Pershing.
01:04:48 Massive crowd of civilians in street, MS of similiar. Headlines: Armistice!...At 11 a.m. War Ended. Celebrating NYC crowd. Celebrating troops in field. Two officers trade hat & cap. Slug.
01:05:15 Intertitle: Cunard Line S.S. Lusitania - Leaving New York, May 1st. Note that its only picture of its last trip.
01:05:17 Intertitle: Passengers arrive at the Cunard S.S. Company’s dock. Many taxis pulling up, well-dressed people helped out.
01:05:54 Intertitle: “This gentleman said to the cameraman - I will see this picture in London.” POV from dock of ship leaving.
01:06:20 Flash title: Elbert Hubbard, the noted author, is seen waving his hand to the cameraman. Ship leaving dock; tug pushing nose of 4-stack liner to turn in river.
NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Quality mostly poor but some interesting footage. Fiction film copyright status unknown.
NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOT SPEED CORRECTED.
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WWI - Stock Newsreel & Fiction Film Excerpts Montage: Military officers down steps; roiling clouds; intertitle: Serajevo; staged assassination. 01:00:21 Montage: newspaper headlines: archduke assassinated; calling up troops. Large artillery; headlines re War! Marching troops thru cheering crowds; mounted officers; MCU small boy in full German uniform including Pickelhaube helmet saluting; dog in helmet w/ marching soldiers; woman looking at buttons w/ picture of officer, buys & puts on coat; troops marching, civilians alongside of various nations . 01:01:32 Montage: Artillery crew riding on gun-wagon; field artillery firing; headline Belgium Invaded; troops past destroyed building, thru towns; headline: Germans Start Gas Warfare; large artillery, loaded, fired by gunners wearing gas masks; headline: Germans Loose Unrestricted Submarine Warfare; sub underway on surface, freighter sunk. 01:02:07 Montage: troops fighting, title 1870, various infantry & cavalry charging; President Wilson in office signing papers, text on screen; freighter explodes; headline re US Ship Torpedoed; headlines intercut w/ submarines, sinking freighter. 01:02:47 Montage: Headlined: War Declared - Congress Rushes Resolution; troops on liner waving; soldiers up gangplank; on dock waving; shipboard waving. 01:03:06 Montage: Soldiers leave ship, marching off dock, thru waving crowd lining street; across field, up road & thru destroyed town. Artillery firing; tanks; soldiers out of trench & over the top in smoke & explosions; out of trenches & thru destroyed trees. 01:04:15 German officers receive envelop from messenger: superimposed: “The offier of peace must be transitted immediately . The Army cannot wait another forty-eight hours. - Ludendorff, Oct. 1918.” 01:04:29 Pershing w/ other officers, including one-armed General; Pershing walking w/ two civilians VIPs followed by French officers MCU Pershing & French officer; CU Pershing. 01:04:48 Massive crowd of civilians in street, MS of similiar. Headlines: Armistice!...At 11 a.m. War Ended. Celebrating NYC crowd. Celebrating troops in field. Two officers trade hat & cap. Slug. 01:05:15 Intertitle: Cunard Line S.S. Lusitania - Leaving New York, May 1st. Note that its only picture of its last trip. 01:05:17 Intertitle: Passengers arrive at the Cunard S.S. Company’s dock. Many taxis pulling up, well-dressed people helped out. 01:05:54 Intertitle: “This gentleman said to the cameraman - I will see this picture in London.” POV from dock of ship leaving. 01:06:20 Flash title: Elbert Hubbard, the noted author, is seen waving his hand to the cameraman. Ship leaving dock; tug pushing nose of 4-stack liner to turn in river. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. Quality mostly poor but some interesting footage. Fiction film copyright status unknown. NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOT SPEED CORRECTED.