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World War 1 Turk forces retreating. Oxen pull wagons. Cavalry with lances. Troop column with camels. Field hospital.

Turkish soldiers retreating from front during World War I, using oxen cattle to pull their equipment and supplies. Turkish cavalry on horseback carrying lances. Turkish troop column using camels to carry equipment and supplies. Turkish military field hospital with a huge, white flag with red crescent laid out in center of encampment to identify it as hospital, from the air. Officers outside the tents and palm trees in the background. Turkish supply wagon train using cattle to pull wagons and carts having solid wooden wheels. Some wagons are covered.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040014
Footage from the Academy Award winning film 'Wings' from 1927, showing a reenactment of World War I aerial dogfights involving post-war Curtis and SPAD replica aircraft.

This material, although spectacular does not show actual combat. It is reconstructed, as part of the 1927 movie "Wings" Flight of four aircraft in flight over clouds are attacked by enemy airplane unseen until right after it fires on and hits one of the four. The stricken aircraft emits smoke while flying through the clouds and then spirals down burning. At TC:00:54 film runs in reverse and burning aircraft goes backwards through TC: 01:01. A similar event is seen in TC:01:04 through TC:01:06. Closeup of Spad biplane with machine guns mounted and pilot wearing goggles visible clearly in cockpit. It is headed directly at the camera and firing all the time. Airplane trailing smoke after being hit by gunfire from another one behind it. View from rear seat of two-seater airplane, as pilot fires at burning airplane ahead of him. Pursuing aircraft continues to fire on burning craft as it spirals down through the clouds. German airplane struck by gunfire burns as it falls. German airplane burning in level flight and then begins to spiral down through clouds. Two aircraft in dogfight. One is hit and burns, falling in a tight spiral. Backseat view from airplane shooting at burning airplane in front of it.

Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040031
Belgian and French soldiers engaged against enemy (unseen) during World War I

Opening scene shows a contingent of Belgian soldiers carrying their rifles and packs as they walk in loose formation across a rutted frozen field during World War 1. Next, several are seen, briefly, firing their rifles from behind an earthen berm. A glimpse of the soldiers trying to get a fire going near a makeshift shelter. Brief view of the soldiers being issued towels and toiletries. Change of scene shows some French soldiers standing on a wooden pontoon bridge, bypassing the original bombed out one in the background. A team of horses pulls a wagon across the bridge. Next, a troop of mounted French cavalry are shown (from the rear) as they proceed toward the front, along a road, lined by trees. A Red Cross covered wagon is being pulled along in their formation. Momentary glimpse of a French 320mm railway gun with some smoke rising from its barrel after firing. Belgian soldiers on the firing line in a shallow trench in no man's land. As they fire their rifles, one of them is hit and helped to the rear by companions.

Date: 1914
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040039
American Expeditionary Forces are welcomed at French training camp during World War I

Newly arrived American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) are welcomed at a French training camp during World War 1. French soldiers carry an American flag, past a formation of French troops, to the U.S. section of the camp. French officers conversing in front of the training camp. Sign overhead reads 'Camp Franco-Americain'. Several American officers stand with them. Flag raising ceremony in the morning. French and American flags are raised simultaneously. French troops lined up for morning roll call (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1917
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040045
Cattle drawn carriages and artillery pass on Pontoon Bridge in World War I.

Civilian official addresses large formation of American troops from a podium at a reviewing stand. U.S. troops on parade across the field, in front of spectators, at an Army base. Included are troops on horse back and horse-drawn caissons. French troops use cattle teams to pull heavy artillery pieces across a pontoon bridge, in France during World War I. Boats tied at Pontoon Bridge. The French artillery battery fires in field. French troops move casually along a road. New recruits, without uniforms, drill in a field. under guidance of U.S. Army soldiers. French soldiers hoist 320mm shell, with block and tackle, to load rail gun, that sits under camouflage netting. Rail gun fires and recoils. French gun crew works on another 320mm rail gun, elevating the barrel to firing position during World War 1.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675040047
Interior of a theater in New York shows newsreel of Czar Nicholas II on screen. Also footage of Emperor Franz Joseph and Kaiser Wilhelm II hunting stags

Trolley Cars, trucks, cars, horse-drawn wagons, and pedestrians on cobblestone street in Brooklyn, New York. People coming out of the Gem movie theater. Snow on ground. Theater marquee lights lit up reading "The Gem Theatre". A horse standing at the curb. Interior of the theater shows pianist in front playing music to accompany silent films. Newsreel of Russian Czar Nicholas II and family including his wife and children on the screen. Czar Nicholas II inspecting troops and seated with officers. Audience watches. Shot zooms in so footage is full screen and theatre patrons no longer visible. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on royal stag hunt. Shooting from stand with telescope equipped rifle. Line of hunted and killed stags on the ground following the hunt.

Date: 1912
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040060