us-005578-irn1002492
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1914-01-01
has end date: 1918-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: Silent
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn1002492
note: Speed adjusted on film-to-video transfer.
scope and content: Panning shot of destroyed buildings. People walking in the background. Soldiers wearing Prussian helmets run through a street. Some carry buckets and some are on horseback. Soldiers ride their horses up to a line of carts, to which they hitch the horses. Men in civilian clothes walk down a street. Some carry bundles. They are accompanined/guarded by soldiers and uniformed men wearing armbands with crosses (medical personnel). Soldiers look at trenches (from bombs?). Several horse-drawn carts bearing cross banners ride down a road. LS of soldiers running across a barren field. Some of them drop to their stomachs and aim their weapons. 00:31:54 Interior shot of three women preparing a large blanket or stretcher cover (?) out of newspapers and cloth. There is a poster with a red cross on the wall. MS of heavily bomb damaged buildings. Men in the foreground arrange sandbags. Two men walk down a muddy road. One of them slows to look at two dead horses by the side of the road. A chair lies in the road. Brief shot of men looking at a fast-flowing river. 00:34:12 A biplane takes off from a grass airfield. Soldiers with horse-drawn carts (field ambulances?) and more medical personnel. Biplanes and a zeppelin on an airfield. Two German officers exit a building with a black and white dog. More men arrive, including a man wearing a fur hat and an armband that reads"P" (press?). The same man (?) wearing the"" armband but a different hat inspects fish with fish vendors in a market. A group of armed German navy men (?) cross a rubble-strewn street. Another shot of the badly damaged buildings and men with sandbags. 00:38:13 Nice shots of German soldiers making horseshoes in the open air. One man finishes a horseshoe and uses it to shoe a horse. Soldiers leading horses to a stable while other men camouflage a horse cart with tree branches. An officer eats a meal in an outdoor shelter. There is a sign reading"Major [illegible" beside the shelter. 00:40:10 The fur-hatted man wearing t…
title: World War I scenes