A Liberty Bond drive in the United States during World War I. Hollywood actors Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks struggle to make their way through a crush of admirers during a Liberty Loan drive in World War I. Pickford holds a bunch of flowers as Chaplin and Fairbanks stand by her side. Chaplin shakes hands with people around him and waves to a large crowd gathered around them. Fairbanks and Chaplin wave to the crowd.
The Third Liberty Bond drive in the United States during World War I. Hollywood actor Douglas Fairbanks leads a Liberty Loan rally. He urges the crowd to buy Liberty Bonds to support the government in World War I as he stands on a podium. He writes on a piece of paper, and sells bonds to people. Mary Pickford signs autographs for admirers.
At the Third Liberty Loan drive during WWI, hollywood star Charlie Chaplin addresses a large crowd from a platform and urges them to buy Liberty Bonds. He leads a band from the platform. Mary Pickford addresses the crowd to promote the sale of Liberty loans. A photographer takes pictures in the background (possibly Harry Van Tine). A band plays at the rally as Charlie Chaplin and Marie Dressler dance to its tunes. A couple sitting in a carriage. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Opening slate (in French): French women during the War (World War 1). Women at work in France during the First World War. French women load hay onto a horse drawn cart. A woman takes care of a horse. Woman leads two pairs of yoked oxen out of a barn. They make the cattle plow a field. A woman with a pair of horses as they till the soil. A group of women collect harvest from a field. Women bring buckets of water from a pond.
French soldiers in France during World War 1. French women in a street. A girl pins up a medal onto a French soldier. Women knit as they sit around a table in a building. Line of French soldiers receive clothes from women working at a counter during a snow storm. A woman in a war manufacturing helmet factory works on a helmet. She weaves straps into the inside of a French Army helmet. She removes a pencil from her hair bun and writes out a note of support to the future recipient of the helmet, and then she tucks it under an inside flap of the completed helmet. Nuns outside a cinema hall hand out treats to soldiers and soldiers enter the movie theatre hall. Women nurses and nuns care for young children and help them at a gathering where they receive flags and toys. Soldiers look on as a girl sings with an amputee. A man and woman couple walk together in a field. The woman helps the man put on and tighten an arm prosthesis, and then the man ably helps saw a log of wood. Women put flowers on French graves in a field. French soldiers sleep in a trench as one soldier stands watch.
French red cross nurses aid in care of French soldiers during World War 1. Nurses greet railroad train carrying French soldiers. Nurses work at food line giving hot food to a line of French soldiers. Injured soldiers being looked after by doctors and nurses and nuns at a hospital in France. A nurse tries to feed a patient lying in a bed. Close up view of another nurse sitting by the bed of a wounded soldier. A nurse opens a veranda door onto a sun porch where injured soldiers are recovering. French soldiers on terrace in the background. Nurses and soldiers on the terrace as they relax and enjoy. Nurse adjusts cast and bandage on a soldier's arm. A soldier on crutches and a nurse look at a chart. Nurses and French soldiers walk down a corridor. A nurse helps two blind soldiers walk down the stairs of the hospital and they walk into a garden. Sign over hospital door includes "XV Region Service de Sant Hospital Complemental Hermitage" Soldiers are helped by the nurse as they sit onto a bench. The sun sets and soldiers along with the nurse walk on a beach. (Beach location and Mediterranean foliage implies this is likely a hospital at Bastia on the island of Corsica, France used by the Allies in World War I).
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