Focus on the 1910s
Focus on 1910s - Street Scenes
Horse-drawn carts in very muddy street. Pedestrians struggling against a very strong wind. Blizzard in city. Wind blowing so hard it blows people sliding along on icy street. Automobiles driving on wide boulevard. President William Howard Taft shaking hands, making speeches.
Focus on 1910s - Presidential Election 1912
William Howard Taft campaigning. Theodore Roosevelt riding in motorcade, campaigning. Woodrow Wilson on inauguration day. Inaugural procession. Woodrow Wilson on balcony wearing top hat. Taft & Wilson shake hands. Taft and Wilson get in carriage together. Inauguration. Parade. Girls waving American flags.
Focus on 1910s - German Royalty
German royalty leaving state occasion showing Kaiser Wilhelm II and Crown Prince Wilhelm, both wearing their big Death Head Hussars headgear, getting into carriage. Empress Augusta getting into second carriage.
Focus on 1910s - German Royalty
Kaiser reviews unit of German lancers in march past. German royal hunting party. Kaiser Wilhelm unidentified man striding across field. Herd of elk run across field. Wilhelm fires rifle as other men watch. Buck with big rack of antlers falls after having been shot. 2 rows of men standing, holding salute, and row of Josef (with nephew & heir Franz Ferdinand) walk past row of troops in front of castle.
Focus on 1910s - Troops Mobilize
Austrian Troops: Cheerful men marching down street carrying bags. Troops marching on wide street, some ride on horse-drawn gun carriages. Row of Army trucks decorated with foliage. Staged scene of Austrian soldier heading off to war, woman leans out window and pins flower on him, another gives him a kiss. Troops entering passenger train. Troops shoulder guns. Motorcycle unit get off to a running start, pushing their bikes past cam. Serbian men skipping off to war. Serbian rifleman with big beard. Russian cavalry. Belgian refugees on road after German attack. Newspaper boys running down boulevard in Paris handing out papers. WAR DECLARED Placard. French Army marching down city street. David Lloyd George and King George V. British soldiers walking single file over muddy ground, a few French soldiers with them. Western Front montage very grainy shots of guns firing, fields, French troops in trench.
Focus on 1910s - Stills
NOT AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING: Still of U.S. soldier w/ rifle lying on stomach. Pan on still of corpses lying on street killed in a border raid by Mexican rebels at Columbus, New Mexico in March, 1916.
Focus on 1910s - U.S. Army Mexican Punitive Expedition
U.S. Army is sent to Mexico after Pancho Villa's group of rebels kill 18 American engineers in Mexico. Windows with bullet holes. Shot looking across burned railroad bridge. Men unload boxes from derailed train. Mexican townspeople fleeing, hurrying along as U.S. soldiers point the way. Mexican rebel leader Pancho Villa poses with his lieutenants. US troops marching out of gate under large arch. U.S. Army mule train with mini-covered wagons on curving road through hills, crossing bridge, desert. President Wilson on horse reviewing troops. Troops marching in long rows.
Focus on 1910s - American Goods for Allies
American industry producing goods for Allies. Teams of carpenters, joiners, workers assembling things. Pan on busy shop floor. Tracking past all the big scaffolding at shipyard, big hammer pounding molten metal. Worker between slowly turning propellers bigger than he is. Framework of ships being assembled. Lady smashing champagne bottle on ship at christening. Ship slides into water. Agriculture. Man on small tractor drives by. Wheat harvest: machines cutting wheat, workers in field bundling into sheaves; sacks of grain loaded on back of flatbed.
Focus on 1910s - Black Tom Munitions Explosion
Nighttime fire due to sabotage by German agents who blew up the Black Tom munitions dump in New Jersey, including the nearby railroad yard and warehouses. Daylight shots of the destruction, shell casings lying thickly scattered, shattered windows. Family gathered outside, homeless. Mother rocking baby in rocking chair.
Focus on 1910s - WWI
U-Boat, unrestricted submarine warfare, WWI, the Great War, U 35 footage filmed by famous Commander Captain Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere, an amateur movie maker. Survivors.
Focus on 1910s - Lusitania Survivors
Lusitania survivors grouped together, children.