National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1962. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1962. THE GREAT WAR

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National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1962. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1962. THE GREAT WAR

1956

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On World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II greets Brit. King George V, Czar Nicolas II, Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph, and Belg. King Albert. Headlines announce Archduke Ferdinand's death. A Ger. ship is launched, Fr. and Ger. soldiers march through their capitals. Ger. troops entrain in Hannover and march through Belg. Includes scenes of the battle of Liege. Brit. embark. Taxis carry Fr. soldiers to the Marne. Women worship. Shows New York City circa 1915. Shows the torpedoing of the ocean liner Lusitania. Pacifists and interventionists parade through a city. Pres. Wilson poses. T. Roosevelt speaks. Col. House, War Sec. Baker, Sec. of State Lansing, and Navy Sec. Daniels pose. Pres. Wilson addresses Congress, signs the declaration of war, and draws the first draft number, Men are inducted and trained in the Army. Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and others perform at Liberty Bond rallies. Gen. Pershing poses. Soldiers relax aboard transports. U.S. troops march and play in Paris. Wounded men are carried through trenches and cared for in hospitals. Ger. Gens. Hindenburg and Ludendorff confer with their staffs and Ger. troops launch the spring offensive of 1918. Ger. planes attack allied columns and engage in dogfights with allied planes. U.S. troops advance near Soissons and Ger. soldiers retreat. Shows Brit. tanks. Includes views of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Shows the burial of U.S. troops; Ger. prisoners of war and victory celebrations on the front and in Paris, London, and New York City. AEF units parade through New York City.

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