World War One Footage

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July 27, 1909. Orville Wright and Lt. Frank P. Lahm, the first Army passenger, test the "Wright Flyer" during trials at Fort Myer. Notable dignitaries present include President and Mrs. Taft, Major Squier, Major Saltzman. Wright and Lahm set the world's endurance record of one hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds. Shot list included. MS of small group standing at door of hangar. Crowds around hangar. Opening doors of hangar. Dignitaries greeting each other. MS of soldiers removing doors from hangar. Pushing plane sideways out of hangar. Soldiers turning plane around. LS of pulling plane out to field. MS preperation of aircraft for take off. Lt. Lahm sitting at controls, Wright standing in front and releasing ropes. Lt. Lahm and Orville Wright take seats in plane. LS of men standing beside catapult and in front of buildings. Men pulling up weight of catapult. LS of catapult from front of plane. MS of catapult from behind plane. LS of taking off. MS of plane taking off. Plane in flight. Plane circles around field, over buildings. LS headquarters building in background. LS of flying field. Plane in flight. Plane landing. LS of plane on field after flight. Moving plane off field. Army presonnel grouped around the Wright aircraft. CU of plane. Wright getting out of plane.

eel 1, spillways are erected, concrete poured, lock gates constructed, and emergency dams erected and swung across locks at Gatun, Miraflores, and Pedro Miguel. A dike is dynamited. Reel 2, rock is dynamited and removed by steam shovel and railroad crane. Reel 3, Culebra Cut is excavated and railroad track is taken up. The lower chamber of Gatun Locks is filled and a tug enters. Gamboa Dike is dynamited. Reel 4, the Cucuaracha slide is dynamited. Shows the dredging fleet. Reel 5, mud and rock are cleared from cuts. Sec. of War Garrison views operations.

Reel 1, spillways are erected, concrete poured, lock gates constructed, and emergency dams erected and swung across locks at Gatun, Miraflores, and Pedro Miguel. A dike is dynamited. Reel 2, rock is dynamited and removed by steam shovel and railroad crane. Reel 3, Culebra Cut is excavated and railroad track is taken up. The lower chamber of Gatun Locks is filled and a tug enters. Gamboa Dike is dynamited. Reel 4, the Cucuaracha slide is dynamited. Shows the dredging fleet. Reel 5, mud and rock are cleared from cuts. Sec. of War Garrison views operations.

Reel 1, Adm. Sims, Winston Churchill, and other celebrities arrive at Central Hall, London, July 4. U.S. flags fly over Parliament and from Whitehall to Trafalgar Square. King George V, Adm. Sims, and Gen. Biddle witness a July 4th baseball game. U.S. troops attend a Kensington Palace garden party. Herbert Hoover poses in front of the U.S. Embassy. Gen. Biddle reviews U.S. troops in Winchester. George V decorates U.S. troops at Buckingham Palace. Members of Parliament enter Westminster Abbey. U.S. and Brit. soldiers decorate the Shrine of Hyde Park. Reel 2, wounded soldiers arrive at a Liverpool hospital. 324th Inf. troops arrive at a Liverpool rest camp. Shows camp cooking facilities. U.S. soldiers debark at Liverpool. 316th F.A. troops board a train. Red Cross workers visit patients at a hospital in Dartford. The 77th F.A. debarks at London from the transport Takada. Allied troops embark aboard the British transport Porto at Dundee, Scotland. The battleships New York, Kansas, Kentucky, and Texas lie at anchor in the Firth of Forth. The 342nd Inf. marches onto a Southampton dock. Reel 3, the 342nd Inf. embarks aboard the transport Charles at Southampton. Wounded soldiers arrive at a hospital in Dartford. Samuel Gompers gives cigarettes to U.S. troops and visits his childhood home in London. Sec. of War Baker marches with U.S. troops in Winchester, poses with Gen. Biddle at London's Belgrave Hotel, visits the Winchester Cathedral with Gen. W.F. Martin, and visits patients at a hospital in Romsey. Brit. Gen. Robert Baden Powell speaks to Boy Scouts in London. Sec. of War Baker and Gen. Biddle visit the Dartford hospital. Brit. and U.S. aviators take off from Ford Junction Aerodrome in Sussex in Farman planes. Shows the aerodrome under construction. U.S. soldiers pose on the campuses of King's College, the University of Edinburgh, and Trinity College.

Pershing walks on the deck of the transport Baltic; disembarks with his staff at Liverpool, England, and Boulogne, France; inspects an honor guard at Boulogne; arrives at the Gare du Nord in Paris; rides through huge crowds in Paris; and speaks to throngs from the balcony of the Hotel Crillon.

German prisoners, Belgian refugees, and wounded 37th Div. troops cross a pontoon bridge over the Lys River at De Paling, Belgium. Shows rubble in De Paling and Cruyshautem. Gen. C.S. Farnsworth and French Gens. Hippolyte Penet and Jean Sicre pose. Civilians receive U.S. rations in Cruyshautem. 112th Engineers remove land mines at Olsene.

Y.M.C.A. trucks are loaded on the docks at St. Die. 11th Inf. troops man trenches near Bois Ducos. The 60th Inf. headquarters bldg. at Sierra de Malfosse is repaired. Sentries take up positions. Gen. McMahon and aides attend a reception at Gerardmer given by French Gen. Le Comte on Bastille Day. 5th Div. troops participate in athletic contests (grenade throwing, running, etc.) and receive awards from Gens. McMahon and Wright.

German planes bomb an ammunition dump at Royaumeix. 356th Inf. troops lead prisoners to the rear and practice loading and firing machine guns near Boucq. 508th Engineers widen a road near Boucq. Prison stockades are built at Menil la Tour. Bread is unloaded and inspected at a warehouse. Gens. Pershing and Wright inspect 89th Div. headquarters at Lucey. Gens. Winn, Dickman, and Shipton pose with Spanish and French officers. 356th Inf. troops attend a band concert. Salvation Army women make doughnuts.

On fighting in Alsace. Shows aerial views around Montreux; the 339th Machine Gun Battalion taking up new positions at Eglingen; a patrol returning to Montreux Chateau; French 240mm guns being unloaded at Montreux Vieux; 88th Division troops receiving language lessons from French girls; and a division cemetery near Hericourt.

12th F.A. units fire French 75's at Sommedieu. Shows the 6th Marines hq. and the divisional hq. at Damblain. Gen. Doyen confers with aides at Moscow. Gen. McCloskey and Allied officers inspect trenches. Marines load supplies on horses and bury Germans at Moscow. Shows hospital patients. The 1st Signal Bn. is inspected. 5th Marines leave the trenches at Moscow and, with 6th Marine units, leave the sector by truck.

Reel 1, the 149th F.A. marches toward Luneville. The 165th Inf. passes through Baccarat. Ambulances of the 117th Sanitary Train leave Bertrichamp. The 149th and 150th F.A. fire a barrage at Reherrey. Artillery of the 167th Inf. shells German trenches at St. Maurice, St. Polo, and Grand Bois. The 167th and 168th Inf. man trenches near Neuviller. Troops receive clothing and pay. 151st F.A. troops pitch quoits and shoe a mule. Graves are decorated near Baccarat. Wounded are brought in and treated at 166th and 168th Inf. aid stations. 165th Inf. troops bring prisoners into Baccarat. Col. Douglas MacArthur and Gen. de Bazelaire meet at Glonville. Reel 2, 165th Inf. troops practice grenade throwing. Radiomen of the 117th Field Signal Bn. record artillery fire data at Baccarat. Gens. C.T. Menoher and M.J. Lenihan, and Col. Mac-Arthur inspect artillery and communication units. Horses and mules are unloaded and washed by 149th and 150th F.A. units. Mules pull a truck from a ditch. 42nd Div. troops box, play baseball, run foot races, and watch Scottish dances and tumbling exhibitions. Menoher, Lenihan, MacArthur, and French Gens. Dupont and Penet decorate graves.

Reel 1, an officer receives the D.S.M. and the 6th F. A. band and U.S.M.C. troops participate in memorial services at a Chaumont cemetery, Memorial Day, 1918. Gens. Pershing and McAndrew review a parade on July 4, 1918. French girls present flowers to Pershing. The 6th F.A. band plays as Allied officers review a French-U.S. parade on July 14, 1918, and attend a band concert at the U.S. hdqrs. Reel 2, graves are decorated at Chaumont on Memorial Day, 1919.

Reel 1, Gen. G.W. Read arrives at 2nd Army Corps hq., Fruges, France. Shows Gen. J.F. O'Ryan and 27th Div. officers at hq., Oudezeele, France. Wagons are loaded with rations at a Saint Laurent supply depot. 107th Pioneers and 102nd Engineers erect Nissen huts. 102nd Field Signal Bn. troops repair communication cables and use signal lamps and Very pistols. 108th Inf. troops load and fire Stokes trench mortars and French 37-mm guns, and spread apron-barbed wire over defensive positions. Reel 2, U.S. and Brit. soldiers practice firing the Vickers machine gun at Camiers. 102nd Engineers construct a communications trench at Belfort, Belgium. Shows 105th Inf. quarters at Beddelen Lerine, Belgium; the rubbled village of Boeschepe, France; 107th Inf. troops making crosses and placing flags on graves in an Abeele, Belgium, cemetery; and Gen. Read and aides at 2nd Army Corps hq., Fruges. Troops take gas mask tests with Y.M.C.A. theater personnel. Y.M.C.A. and 27th Div. units present a stage show at Oudezeele.

Shows junior officers of the 16th, 26th, and 28th Inf. Reg'ts and the 2nd Field Signal Bn. Reels of wire arrive at Chaumont, the wire is strung, and field radios operated. Convalescents arrive at an evacuation station. Gen. Pershing addresses 1st Div. officers at Fontaine. 26th Inf., 2nd Field Signal Bn., and artillery units march toward the front near Haudivillers. Horses forage and men draw rations near Bonvillers. Shows activity in a field kitchen.

The 8th Machine Gun Bn. returns to billets at Orges, France. Supply trains leave for the front. Gens. Dickman and Brewster review the 38th Inf. at Coupray and the 7th Inf. at St. Martin. Gen. Dickman inspects the 30th Inf. on a road between Latrecey and Arc-en-Barrois.

On activities in Alsace. Reel 1 shows conferences among Gens. Boardman, Haan, and Fr. Gens. de Boissoudy and Gamelin. 125th Inf. troops train with airplane signal panels and man a signal station. 128th Inf. scouts round up Ger. snipers; 126th Inf. troops man trenches; 107th Ammunition Train troops move ammunition onto caissons. 127th Inf. Polish troops eat. Troops watch boxing matches. Reel 2, Haan inspects the 128th. 125th Inf. troops occupy Sentheim, Ger., and are reviewed by Gamelin, Pershing, and Haan. 147th F.A. troops inspect a Hotchkiss machine gun.

Shows street scenes in Bellicourt and Nauroy. Brit. artillery shells German trenches at Busigny. Shows rubbled streets and a damaged cathedral in St. Quentin. Gens. Read and Simonds inspect sunken barges at Le Catelet, former enemy positions, and a U.S. cemetery. Shows an abandoned "Big Bertha" at Cappy-sur-Somme. Brit. and Australian engineers repair roads and railroads. French refugees leave Busigny and return to homes in Cambrai and Amiens. Civilians parade in Bohain. U.S. and Brit. troops sightsee in Premont and Australian troops entrain for rest camps.

Reel 1 shows Allied defenses on the Montdidier front and rubbled buildings in Villers-Tournelle and Noyers-St. Martin. Bodies are dug from the rubble. Shows dead U.S. and German soldiers in the streets of Cantigny and demolished and abandoned enemy equipment. Machine guns are set up north of Villers-Tournelle and dugouts are erected. Reel 2, 2nd Field Signal Bn. troops eat near Maron. Prisoners are escorted to the rear near Cantigny, searched, and inspected by Gens. Pershing and R.L. Bullard. 1st Div. troops draw rations at Maron. 26th Inf. units arrive and entrain for the front. Mules of the 2nd Field Signal Bn. are loaded. Clothing is deloused at Bonvillers. Captured equipment is examined. Gen. B.B. Buck confers with aides at Froissy. Reel 3, 16th Inf. troops are decorated. 18th Inf. troops are buried at Bonvillers. 5th F.A. units fire 155's at Rocquencourt. 6th F.A. troops fire French 75's at Coullemelle. Shows ammunition dumps at Tartigny.

Gen. George B. Duncan and French officers confer at divisional headquarters in Baccarat. Food is served to 308th Inf. troops in the trenches. A nurse is buried at Baccarat. 77th Div. troops wash clothes, exercise on parallel bars, and do the manual of arms.

Shows the town of Mouilly. 313th Inf. troops practice trench warfare at Combres. Gen. Nicholson and aides consult maps. Captured equipment is examined. Machine guns are fired in practice. Casualties are unloaded at an aid station. Gen. Kuhn poses. 313th Inf. troops receive rations. Prisoners are marched into Narcourt. Shows supply dumps at Rattentout. Railroad cars are loaded with supplies.

Shows panoramic views of 42nd Div. hq. near Bourmont; the 33rd Engineers digging a well; type being set at a printing shop; 166th Inf. troops, including baseball player "Hank" Gowdy, playing catch at Sommercourt; the 117th Engineers returning from maneuvers to Brainville; machine gun drills; 167th Inf. troops receiving clothing; a wire-laying contest between 117th Field Signal Bn. men at Chatenois; a wireless aerial being strung from a church; and Gens. Pershing and Lenihan decorating 84th Brigade troops, including Gen. MacArthur, at Bagneux. The brigade passes in review.

Gens. E.M. Lewis and S.L. Faison confer with aides at Watou, Belgium. 117th Inf. troops practice trench fighting tactics. Gens. Tyson and Faison pose at 30th Div. hq. with their aides. Shows destruction in Vlamertinghe, Belgium. King George V inspects 30th Div. troops at Rauchicourt, France. 120th Inf. troops arm bombs and practice grenade throwing. Shows Gen. L.D. Tyson and aides in 59th Brigade hq. near Ypres.

Shows aerial views at Chaumont. The 406th Field Signal Bn. install telephone lines into Chaumont. A road is constructed and the entrance gate painted. Pres. Poincare and Gens. Pershing and Petain arrive at the Chaumont station. Officers walk from the railroad station to the G.H.Q. and attend the opening of the Y.M.C.A. center. Shows activities at the G.H.Q. commissary.