Farmyard scene. A girl and her little sister stand outside their house and feed pigeons and chickens. Horse tied in the background. The pigeons flutter about. (Edison Company, 1896).
An African American mother bathes her infant in a bucket of white soap suds. The baby struggles as his mother bathes him. (Edison Company, 1896)
A barn is burning, smoke coming from closed doors. A burning wagon is dragged from the barn by firemen, and four horses are rescued from the flames by the stableman. Heavy smoke billows from doors and windows. (Edison Company, 1896)
Several aircraft flying high overhead during World War I. Scene shifts to soldiers on the ground, at an airfield. One is looking skyward with binoculars. Two others lean over a table with paper stretched out on it. A third soldier stands at a large black cloth-covered box, where only his legs are seen.(This is a camera obscura.) The soldier, with binoculars, joins the two looking over the table and paper, which contains a diagram of concentric rings. One uses a ruler to make marks on the diagram.Air Service man inside the Camera Obscura plots the course of an aircraft. Two Air Service Lieutenants hold and look through old and new Michelin bombsights. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Camera pans over French soldiers in several trench locations along the Marne line during World War 1. Some are also seen digging new trenches next to a road. Several French troops and a farmer stand near two French Schneider tanks, one with a White diamond painted on its side. In far background troops are seen marching single-file. Scene switches to American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) moving single-file along a tree line. The film is destroyed between time code: 01:23 and 2:02, where it picks up again showing American soldiers gathered in a clearing in the woods. Horses and wagons, trucks, and a staff car are also seen. Next scene shows a long line of U.S. troops and trucks clogging a road. German prisoners, including some ambulatory wounded, walk past French canvas-covered wagons, and are seen near French soldiers. French troops with wagons pulled by donkeys, pass German prisoners of war, and enter the town of Longmont. Mounted French soldiers pull a caisson. The destroyed Abbey of Longmont is seen in the background as mounted French soldiers ride into the town. More German POWs walk towards the rear, past them. More views of the destroyed Abbey. A contingent of French troops with wagons and caissons advances toward the front.
British officers supervising construction of a small wooden bridge over the Wami River in German East Africa (Tanzania). British Indian colonial soldiers assemble wood logs on support. British officer instructs them. Colonial soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher, across the new bridge.
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