British soldiers moving horses and supplies through thick mud during the First World War. A soldier with his face covered with mud. A shell bursts showering British soldiers with shrapnel, as they hunker down in the mud at night. In daytime scene British infantry advances across no man's land as the unit piper plays bagpipes and marches along crest of hill in World War 1. (Slate states Piper Richardson was killed later that day and was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry.) Scenes are from a British film released post-war.
Scenes from a movie about the First World War. A British Q ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. A German U boat surfaces. Gun crew on the Q ship take aim and fire at the U boat. Explosions occur at the U boat. The Q ship gun crew cheers as the submarine is sunk.
Scene from a movie about the First World War. View from a surfaced German U Boat, where crew members watch from conning tower as a sailing merchant ship sinks. Debris from the sunken ship all around the U Boat.
A German U boat underway at periscope depth in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. A British merchant ship underway in the ocean. A man aboard the ship looks through binoculars. The U Boat fires a torpedo. Crew aboard the ship see the torpedo coming. It strikes and explodes. Crew members lower a life boat and abandon the ship. German officers express their satisfaction aboard the U Boat.
Aerial view of a river bank with trees on its sides in United States. Men dig trenches along a highway, a water tower.
View from side of railroad track as steam locomotive passes pulling a long passenger train at high speed. A freight train passes at the same time in opposite direction on parallel track. Split screen presentation shows automobile traffic, pedestrians, and street cars on Woodward Avenue, in Detroit, and a ferry boat plying a river on the other screen. The ferry boat appears to converge onto the avenue, as if to collide with a trolley car.