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British warships in Mediterranean waters near Palestine. Aerial views from dirigible.

British warships near Palestine. Overflights by dirigible. Aerial views from dirigible. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Location: Mediterranean Sea
Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027170
British horseguards escort German Kaiser Wilhelm II and entourage in London

Kaiser Wilhelm II and party arrive in horse-drawn carriages escorted by British Horse Guards on parade in London, England.

Location: London England United Kingdom
Date: 1912
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027175
Turkish forces mobilizing in Palestine to engage British forces at the Suez Canal in Egypt during World War I

Turkish mobilization activities in World War 1. Turkish and Bedouin Cavalry engaged in exercises. Turkish authorities have enlisted every horse and camel in Syria for the anticipated military engagement with British forces defending the Suez Canal in Egypt. Individual Cavalrymen ride their horses at a gallop, while others watch. Turkish troops of the Fourth Turkish Army in Palestine, preparing to depart. They begin assembling in formation and start to march, accompanied by a brass band, in Jerusalem. Later, well-drilled and equipped troops march in good order through the streets. Turkish cavalry move through the crowded streets on horseback. Change of scene shows column of troops led by a military band,as they march out of a town. Turkish troops make their way marching, with shouldered rifles, through streets packed with people.

Location: Palestine
Date: 1914
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Swedish
Clip: 65675027178
British women take on men's jobs on the homefront during World War I

Women in the industrial workforce on the homefront in Britain during World War 1. Opening scene shows several British women in working garb painting a railroad car. Other women perform manual labor alongside railroad box cars in a rail yard near a factory, as two women pass them pushing a small flatbed rail car loaded with steel rail parts. Change of scene to outdoors, where women are felling trees. Two in foreground are using a grinding wheel to sharpen an axe, while behind them, two push on a tree while two others use a long two-handled saw near its base. They jump clear as the tree falls. Women wielding axes to cut trees, elswehere in the woods. Two women with a two-handled saw, making final cuts on a standing tree, and stepping out of the way as it falls. A woman painter on a scaffold supported by block and tackle rigging four stories high on the side of a city building.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1916
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027180
President Wilson votes in 1916 election. American soldiers cast ballots at army camp. British women work in industry to help during World War I

President Woodrow Wilson voting in the Presidential election on November 7, 1916, in Princeton, New Jersey. He is seen walking with an entourage, along the sidewalks of Chambers Street, past the entrance to G.A. Rule Real Estate offices, where men on the steps, remove their hats in acknowledgement and respect. The President and his party continue on to the old firehouse, that has been set up as a polling place. After greeting people there, President Wilson enters to vote. He comes out of the building after casting his ballot and doffs his hat to the camera and people in the vicinity. The scene shows American soldiers at an army camp casting their ballots in the election. They huddle around tables where there names are checked on voter lists and they receive ballots. One soldier is seen sealing his ballot before depositing it in a ballot box. Camera focuses on a ballot table with soldiers crowded around it. The final segment of the film contains completely unrelated footage of British women in the United Kingdom working in an industrial operation during World War 1. Some are seen at a railroad siding, clearing up scrap beside open rail cars. They use wooden wheel barrows with wooden wheels. Two women push a load of steel rail parts on a small flat rail car. In another location at the plant, women push a flat rail car loaded with lumber to a spot where several other women remove and stack it. Many steel railroad wheels are lined up in the background. The camera focuses on women pushing railroad axles, assembled with wheels, along tracks, toward a building in the rail yard. Two women touch-up paint on the side of a railroad car, as another woman (supervisor) watches. Back at the area of stacked lumber, two women fabricate something using a saw and hammer and nails on lumber placed atop wooden saw horses. Another woman wields a hammer in the background.

Location: Princeton New Jersey USA
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027186
British Essex Regiment repair roads and bridges in France, during World War I.

Battalion of the British Essex Regiment at work repairing roads and bridges in France, during World War One. Horse-drawn wagons cross small bridge. Members of the Battalion woek with picks and shovels to make repairs.

Location: France
Date: 1918
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027213
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