https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5dc66b85-a469-4866-888b-7fa7d931ec97 Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This reel of silent footage dates to World War I and consists of various segments. At 00:14, members of the American air corps the Lafayette Escadrille are shown in France. The aircraft appear to be S.E. 5a's in French livery. (This portion of the film appears to be "flopped"). At 1:32 members of the unit are shown arm-in-arm and pose with their dog. At 2:04 a wrecked German airplane is seen with its pilot held prisoner. At 2:15 bombs are loaded by hand into a German plane to be dropped over Allied lines. At 2:30, a section showing pre-war France, people are shown at the beach, and in a public swimming pool. At 3:50 a lifeguard revives a person with artificial respiration. At 5:30, back to the front as artillery pieces are shown as well as an early tank (5:50). At 6:30 troops cross into no man's land followed by a tank. At 6:45 a heavy machine-gun fires at an approaching tank. At 7:00 troops rush towards the front line under fire. At 7:10 a tank is shown approaching a line of barbed wire. At 7:40 a rail line is built to serve the front. At 8:02, a section about the run-up to the war. A newspaper declares "Great Britain Goes to War". At 8:15 troops march. At 8:46 a man speaks to an assembled crowd. At 9:04, an American audience listens to a speaker talk about the war. Americans are shown marching at 9:24. At 10:17 a car carrying flags of the allies is shown (includes a Japanese flag as they were part of the alliance in WWI). At 10:50 soldiers are shown doing calisthenics. At 10:59 a trolley car rides past with a sign "Join the Buffs and Hunt the Huns" 68th Canadian Infantry Division. At 11:15, General Pershing is visible with British commanders. At 11:55, a boxing match (note the Japanese flag in the foreground). At 14:06 artillery fires and troops go "over the top" into combat. At 14:20 aftermath section -- wounded men are pushed in wheelchairs. Lots of graves are seen. 16:40, more combat footage. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU7OQWRx6c4 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:14:32 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5dc66b85-a469-4866-888b-7fa7d931ec97 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.