French soldiers with a German spy during the World War I in France. Soldiers stand with a German spy. The German officer is shot dead. Dead body of the spy.
Camouflaged French guns in the battlefield during the World War I in France. Houses and trees in the background. Smoke arises from the firing of guns.
French and German soldiers engaged in trench fighting during World War I in France. The battle continues at night. Bombarding and firing in the battlefield. Smoke from the explosions. French soldiers fire artillery from hide outs. They load and fire the artillery. Skeletons beside a burial trench.
French soldiers transport machine guns and a 37mm gun during World War 1, in France. Ruins of a German gas plant. Soldiers walk with machine guns. Machine guns in front line trenches. Soldiers sitting.
French soldiers in a trench during World War I in France. A soldier smokes in the trench. Other soldiers stand behind barricades. Hand grenades in the trench.
French troops engage Germans (not seen) from trenches only 40 feet apart, during World War 1. explosions create a line of white smoke in background, as French troops are photographed in a deep trench by camera from above. Glimpse of a French Schneider 240 mm howitzer firing. Shells striking and heavy white smoke rising. French troops in a deep trench, lined with woven wood sticks. They use a grenade launcher to propel ball grenades. Grenades striking and raising clouds of white smoke. A French soldier by several canisters placed in a trench. He ignites one that begins to emit white smoke. He quickly leaves the trench as all the canisters ignite and generate large clouds of white gas that drifts toward the German trenches. Views from evacuated position of the gas rising and drifting. Several French artillerymen firing a heavy gun. They run to the rear of the gun as it fires and some cover their ears. More views of the gas drifting toward German trenches. A German shell explodes on or near the French trench where the gas is being generated. A battery of French 120mm long guns mounted on railway flat cars. They fire tear gas shells. View of the same trenches shown earlier, with gas continuing to cloud the area, and a shell exploding in the midst of it. French soldiers in a fortified position,load,tighten,and release a grenade launcher, propelling a grenade toward German positions. An Aasen mortar (Mortier Aasen) 3.5-inch (88.9-mm) gun-mortar firing gas shells from a trench. White smoke rising from shell strikes. Small German shell or grenade, exploding just outside a French trench. French soldiers hunched down and moving quickly through a trench, and then going "over the top," in a charge. (Note: This footage was filmed by the famous American World War 1 photographer, Donald C. Thompson, as indicated in the opening slate.)