Footage Battle of the Somme. (1910-1919)
Reel 1
0:07:09
Reel 2
0:08:38
Reel 3
0:12:35
Reel 4
0:07:52Battle of the Somme (1910-1919)
Reel №1
Germany.
Documentary about the everyday life of German units on the Western Front during World War I. Filming approved by the General Staff of the German Army.
Marching soldiers.
Horse-drawn carts.
Searchlight company.
Sapper carts with bridge parts.
Carts with mortars.
Trucks with soldiers.
Combat pilots.
Bombs are delivered to the plane.
Aircraft are supplied with oxygen devices.
Flight personnel at the plane.
The plane takes off.
The plane in the air.
Various maneuvers in the air.
Aerial photography of a city.
Filming of fields, green areas.
German positions.
Preparing smoke bombs to mark the landing site.
Landing of the plane.
Streets of Bopaum, bombed by French aviation.
Evacuation of the civilian population.
Boarding children.
Destroyed residential buildings.
Soldiers on the street
Keywords
Germany, war 1 world, soldiers, weapons, military equipment, sappers, bridge, aviation, evacuation, children, destruction
Reel №2
Germany.
A panorama of the ruins of the city.
A church in Bopaume destroyed by artillery.
The road to San Quentin.
Broken carts.
A destroyed tank.
Wire fences.
Destroyed tanks.
Fallen horses.
Ruins of the cathedral in San Quentin.
The destroyed town of Olwen.
The German Emperor Wilhelm inspects the former English camp.
The road from Bopaume to Peronne.
Corpses of horses.
Destroyed buildings of the village.
A German hospital.
The destroyed street of Manacourt.
Ruins of the city of Peronne.
On the banks of the Somme.
Refugees with their belongings.
Soldiers' quarters in Peronne.
Avenue Donnicourt in Peronne in ruins
Keywords
Germany, war 1 world, destruction, artillery, tanks, fortifications, Cathedral, State, figures, personalities, medicine, State, institutions, river, refugees
Reel №3
Germany.
German soldiers with letters from home.
Enemy planes in the air.
Forest.
A group of German sappers moves through the forest.
Sappers in the forest.
Military operations in the forest.
Explosions.
The wounded are carried out from the battlefield.
Digging trenches.
A German gun fires at enemy positions.
Horse-drawn carts.
A gun fires at the enemy.
Sappers lay mines and pull cords.
Smoke screen
Keywords
Germany, war 1 world, soldiers, mail, sappers, explosion, wounded, weapons, fortifications
Reel №4
Germany.
Planting explosive devices.
Field gun.
Explosions.
Soldiers in trenches.
Smoke screen.
Mortars in action.
Small arms.
Infantry in attack.
Soldiers dragging a gun.
Infantry running.
Soldiers in trenches.
Grenade launcher.
Soldiers loading a grenade launcher.
Unlike the first two parts, parts 3 and 4 of the film are clearly staged and have limited documentary value.
Keywords
Germany, war 1 world, explosion, weapons, soldiers, fortifications