French children in France during World War I. French children playing in an outdoor courtyard, supervised by a woman nurse or teacher. A teacher inside a French classroom instructs young children students. A student stands and answers the teacher's questions. A train pulls up at a station and passengers, many children aboard the train, look out from the windows. Elderly nurses or nuns along with children on an outdoor outing. One of the women comforts a girl who has hurt her hand. Boys play in the background. Red Cross workers help children enter a hospital building. Nurses take care of sick children in metal-sided cribs at the hospital. Older children play games with nurses outdoors on the hospital grounds.
Regarding Female French heroes in World War 1. Pictures of Joan of Arc and Jeanne Hachette. French solders line up and a French officer present a medal to a woman at a ceremony. The woman with the medal. Various other women with medals. Nuns and an old woman with a medal. A girl in a bed at a hospital. A female patient in a bed. French soldiers line up at an award ceremony the Court of Les Invalides. Women line up to be honored at the ceremony. General Joffre presents medals to the women, who then review a parade of French soldiers. Soldiers march past the honored women.
A French propaganda dramatization about the events leading up to World War I. A French woman stands next to a sign that reads ' France '. A German officer holds up a note related to the Treaty of Frankfurt. He tears it in half, burns it and laughs. Wooden poles in shape of numbers for year 1914 seen burning in flames. End of dramatization. Actual footage of French soldiers erecting barbed wire fences. French soldiers move in a line down a ravine. Together with an American soldier, the French soldiers work in a field and uncover three unexploded bomb shells.
America enters World War I. United States Secretary of War Newton D. Baker at a desk as he shows the war bonds. Secretary Baker with a group of men as he holds the war bonds. Men outside a theater with a sign in the background promoting a grand rally and a stirring speaker. A man shakes hands with Secretary Baker and buys the bonds. Douglas Fairbanks amidst a large crowd as he promotes the sale of the war bonds.
A Liberty Bond drive in the United States during World War I. United States Secretary of Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels hold American flags at a rally to promote the sale of Liberty Bonds during World war I. A large crowd gathered at the rally. Daniels and McAdoo shake hands. McAdoo addresses the gathering at the bond rally.
A Liberty Bond drive in the United states World War I. Girls wearing Uncle Sam's hat march in the bond rally. People outside a building with a sign on it that reads ' Liberty Bank '. Girls line up. The one in the foreground holds an American flag. Sailors sing at the bond rally. A naval band plays and a girl sings at the rally.