First World War (1967)

Newsreel of the late 19th - early 20th centuries: London - general.

Streets of Vienna.

Residents of the city getting into a car, cabbies, pedestrians on the streets of Vienna.

Public session of "live photography" at the "Grand Cafe on the Boulevard des Capucines" in Paris - general, cf.

Small screen with a live image - general.

The inventor of cinematography Louis Lumiere at the camera - kr, cf.

American Thomas Alva Edison working on improving the phonograph, which he also invented - kr, cf.

Radio receiver created by the inventor of radio Alexander Popov - kr. A.S. Popov - kr.

Eiffel Tower - Poland.

Engineer Eiffel - cf.

Factory buildings, tall chimneys of an enterprise.

Bank building in one of the capitalist countries.

Bank sign - kr.

Operations hall.

A bank employee closes the heavy doors of a bank safe - kr, cf.

Black slaves work in the forest.

An overseer watches the slaves work.

In one of the colonial countries, workers collect rubber on a plantation.

Loaders carry heavy sacks - general, cf.

A French officer counts sacks of cargo - general.

Photo: a group of factory owners.

Newsreel from the late 19th - early 20th centuries: A military factory - general, departure.

A stock exchange in one of the European capitals - wed, cr.

The excitement of stockbrokers: people shout, gesticulate, wave shares, etc. in the hall.

A geographical map with the military operation according to the Schlieffen Plan, prepared in Germany, marked on it.

Newsreel from 1914: Germany.

Troops marching.

Kaiser Wilhelm passes in front of a column of troops.

The capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo - general.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, rides through the streets of the city.

Assassination of Franz Ferdinandoine.

The Archduke's uniform - kr.

Photo: F. Ferdinand's assassin Gavril Princip, a member of the Serbian nationalist organization Mlada Bosna - kr.

Newsreel of 1914: Popular unrest in Paris and Berlin caused by the assassination of the Archduke: the streets and squares of the cities are filled with excited people, leaflets are scattered.

Photo of Franz Joseph.

Newsreel of 1914: Troops mobilized in connection with the ultimatum sent by Austria to Serbia pass through the cities of Austria.

The beginning of the war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia: cannons fire, shells explode - general, medium, kr.

Manifesto of the tsarist government of Russia, which announced mobilization - kr.

Announcement of the manifesto to the people.

A demonstration in Russia organized by the clergy, nobility and merchants.

Protesters carry portraits of the Tsar and his family.

People on the streets of Berlin, reading announcements about mobilization.

Military trains leave the Berlin railway station for the front.

French troops pass by - general.

Russian women see their husbands and sons off to the front, to the war with Germany.

A meeting of the French Socialists who voted for war credits.

The Reichstag in Berlin - wed.

The commemorative medal awarded to the Reichstag deputies who voted for the war - short, departure.

The Bern Mountains in Switzerland - general.

Photo: portrait of V.I. Lenin - short.

Newsreel from 1914: The State Duma building in St.

Petersburg.

A meeting of the State Duma, where the Bolshevik deputies spoke out against the war.

The arrest and deportation to Siberia of the Bolshevik faction.

German troops.

Brussels Cathedral - short, Poland.

Construction of barricades on the streets of Brussels to protect the city from the German invaders.

Belgian troops on the streets of the city - cf.

German troops in Brussels.

Legs of German soldiers marching along a Brussels street - kr.

Mobilization of troops in England, which entered the war on the side of France and Russia.

Offensive actions of German troops against France.

German troops on French territory.

Retreat of French troops.

French refugees on the roads of the country - cf.

Column of cars of the French government leaving for Bordeaux.

The offensive of Russian troops on German positions: cavalry, infantry in battle, guns firing, shells exploding.

German troops retreat in panic.

The march of German troops from the western front to the east.

Cartoon: a map indicating the front of German troops - kr.

Newsreel of 1914: Anglo-French troops concentrated for an offensive on the Marne.

French taxis mobilized to transport soldiers.

The Anglo-French command in the trenches.

The Battle of the Marne.

Heavy artillery in action.

Explosions of shells.

Retreat of the German troops.

Attack of the Entente cavalry.

Cartoon: maps showing the position of the Entente and German troops at the end of 1914. Newsreel of 1914: German command.

Soldiers in the trenches of the Western Front during a lull.

Hungry people look for frozen potatoes in the ground.

Long lines for bread in the cities.

Warships of Japan, which has come out against Germany, are fighting at sea.

Explosion in the water near the ship - general.

Constantinople - general.

Turkish troops in a combat position - general.

Military operations in the Alps: Italian troops are conducting offensive battles.

Newsreel of 1915: Clouds of asphyxiating gas used on the Western Front by German troops spread over the ground - general, cro.

German soldiers in gas masks near a gun.

French soldiers in gas masks.

Victims of chemical warfare - medium, cro.

Military operations on the Eastern Front: Russian armies advance on the Austro-Hungarian troops in the Carpathians (episodes of the battle).

The military fortress of Przemysl, taken by Russian troops.

The ruins of the Bugach fortress, taken by Russian troops.

An inscription made in chalk on the ruins of the fortress wall: "On May 28, 1915, Bugach was taken by the Vyatka Regiment" - cro., general.

Russian combat position: observation post, location of guns, shells - medium, cro.

German artillery attacks Russian positions.

Shells exploding - Wed, kr, gen.

Russian artillery in combat position - general.

Poland.

Cartoon: a map showing the German breakthrough of Russian positions between Gorlice and Tarnow in May 1914. Newsreel from 1915: Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand talking with German Emperor Wilhelm.

Bulgarian troops passing by.

Newsreel from 1916: The Germans are conducting an offensive on the Western Front using aircraft: loading an aircraft with bombs, taking off on a combat mission, dropping bombs from an aircraft.

Bombs exploding on the ground.

The German offensive on the Verdun fortress.

Cannon fire continuously attacks French positions - misc.

German infantry attacks the French after artillery preparation.

French artillery intensively repulses an attack by German infantry.

The battlefield after the Battle of Verdun, strewn with the corpses of German and French soldiers.

A panorama of the destroyed trenches near Verdun - general.

The headquarters of the Russian army of General Brusilov.

General Brusilov at headquarters - short.

Cartoon: a map depicting the Brusilov breakthrough.

Newsreel of 1916: Episodes of the battles of the Brusilov army, which broke through the Austrian front east of the city of Lutsk.

The offensive of the Anglo-French troops on the Somme River: guns fire, shells explode.

An English tank goes on the attack.

An attack by the infantry of the Anglo-French troops.

Hand-to-hand combat between soldiers.

Wounded on the battlefield.

Killed on the battlefield.

Newsreel of 1917: Workers' demonstrations in Germany - general.

The hoot of a factory whistle - short.

Strike in Russia.

Bread queue - general, medium.

War invalids on the streets.

Leaflets are being dropped at a large rally in a Russian city.

A soldier knocks down the coat of arms of Tsarist Russia - cf.

Military action at sea: guns are fired from the warships of England and France.

American skyscrapers - general, Poland.

American businessmen.

The Capitol building - cf.

Speech by US President Wilson.

An American warship is sinking, blown up by German submarines.

People jump into the water from the sinking ship - general.

A representative of the provisional bourgeois government, which supports the war, speaks in Russia.

A representative of the Bolsheviks speaks to soldiers, calls on them to stop military action and not to defend the interests of the imperialists.

Russian soldiers leave the trenches.

Revolutionary battles in Petrograd.

Painting: V.I. Lenin's speech to sailors and soldiers.

A copy of the newspaper with the text of the Decree on Peace - kr.

Newsreel 1917: Soviet delegation arriving in Brest-Litovsk for negotiations with Germany.

Newsreel 1918: Signing of the Brest Peace Treaty.

German offensives on the Western Front - general, cf.

American troops arriving in Europe to reinforce the Anglo-French forces.

Entente troops and their commander Marshal Foch pass by - cf.

Attack of the Entente infantry and tanks.

Captured troops of Germany and its allies - cf.

Revolution in Berlin.

Photographs: signing of the armistice between Germany and the Entente powers in the staff carriage of Marshal Foch in the Compiegne Forest on November 11, 1918. Newsreel 1918: Fanfare player playing (signal of ceasefire).

Military victory parades in the capitals of the victorious countries: in Paris - general; in London - general; in Washington - general.

Soldiers' cemetery where those who died during the First World War are buried - general. (from the passage).

Cartoon: a volume of the works of V.I. Lenin - short.

NPL on a quote from the work of V.I. Lenin: "The war of 1914-1918 was imperialist on both sides..."