Captured WWI German Film 1914-1918

Shot List:

r1:00:00:25;10

The Crown Prince of Germany, Crown Prince William, with some of his family walking toward the camera. Unidentified decorated military gets into a carriage. Scenes of a German military parade passes in review. Two ladies enter a carriage. Men drinking at a table. Unidentified CUs, different men at table.

r1:00:02:28;15

General Von Hindenburg exits a building in uniform and greets spectators. Good CUs of General Von Hindenburg. Men in uniform marching.

r1:00:03:12;08

German soldiers marching in the streets of Berlin in the early days of WWI. Note the spiked helmets. German soldiers parade in Berlin through the Brandenburg gate, some on horseback.

r1:00:04:42;03

German soldiers about to entrain for the front in WWI stop for a bite to eat and drink . Women pin flowers on troops and distribute drinks and sandwiches German Red Cross. German soldiers board a train.

r1:00:05:20;08

German cavalry on the march. German cavalry soldiers on the way to the front in the early months of WWI. Note the spiked helmets which the Germans soon learned was not suitable for trench warfare. Happy spectators line the streets. A column of trucks and other vehicles leaving for the theater of war.

r1:00:06:41;00

Heavy siege artillery in action before Antwerp. Marching along road with big-wheeled tanks. Equipment in the fields emphasizing German strength. Medics stand next to tanks artillery, church steeple in BG.

r1:00:07:52;17

German infantry moving up to the front stops by the road-side for dinner. This scene and those following were taken in East Prussia in the early days of the war. Chopping wood on road, soldiers milling about. Infantry on the road again after the halt. Men pick up packs and prepare to push forward. They line up, take bayonets, and march off. Parade with drummers pass by a man on a horse chatting with another officer wearing goggles. The motorcycle brigade gets ready. Men run to their motor-bikes and rush ahead one struggles with a broken bike. Off they go.

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r5:00:00:30;00

The return from battle. A remarkable view of captured French prisoners carrying their wounded comrades to the rear. Note the dejection and discouragement written on their faces.

r5:00:01:10;09

Scenes of a WWI German prisoner of war POW camp showing captured Allied prisoners. CU of captured Allied soldiers eating a meal. CU views of captured Allied soldiers in German POW camp.

r5:00:03:05;23

Allied prisoners captured by the Germans in WWI march, dig rocks, bale & stake hay, in a prisoner of war POW camp.

r5:00:04:27;22

On the Turkish Front in WWI. Turkish soldiers in a front line trench. The wounded are being collected by a mountain Medical detachment with the help from a dog. Turkish troops place their wounded on camels and taken off the battlefield. Camels and horses are watered.