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WWI - ARMISTICE & CELEBRATIONS - royalty-free footage in our collection

220694          06:14:18 - 06:29:27            1918   SIL       B/W    France             WWI - Armistice     
On celebrations in France.
German delegates leave their headquarters at Compiegne on Nov. 8.  RR car named:  Compagnie Internationale Des Wagon-Lits Et Des Grands Express.  French troops cheer Foch's train at Rethondes on Nov. 11.  Gen. Wahl receives the armistice news at the front - CU message.  Shows celebrations of the 64th Inf., 5th and 92nd Divs., 340th and 102nd F.A; Burial of last German shell.  French civilians greet 6th Inf. troops near Remoiville.  Negro / black soldiers guard prisoners.  The 28th Div. greets Ger. troops near Dampvitoux. 105th F.A. troops celebrate at Etraye.

220933          01:40:31 - 01:50:26            1917 - 1928 SD        B/W   
INCLUDING: 01:42:35:  Surrendering German troops.
01:42:49:  WWI victory celebrations NYC, waving hats and flags.
01:43:22:  1919: Woodrow Wilson at desk.  Roosevelt reviews US troops in France w/ General [Hershing?].
01:43:57:  US troops boarding transports in France.  Arc de Triomphe and march past, Paris. 01:45:21:   

220468          01:58:49 - 02:00:31            1919   SD        B/W    USA                  New York Hails 82nd Airborne Division in Victory March
Parade from Washington Square arches to Fifth Avenue.  Flashback to 1919 Victory parade at end of WWI.

220545          05:09:30 - 05:19:44            1800s - 1918           SD        B/W    The American Soldier in Combat  Pt. 2 of 3
INCLUDING:
05:17:31  Headlines re WWI - WAR - mobilisation.  US troops arrive in France; on road.  MCU doughboys legs.  Excellent staged trench warfare scene!  Climbing out of trenches, firing, shells exploding,high angle shots troops fighting on battlefield, barbed wire, troops run towards camera & collapse as planes fly overhead.  
05:19:15  Headlines War Ends.  Armistice celebrations in USA; ticker-tape parade.

220505          11:00:00 - 11:48:54            1914 - 1918 Si         b/w     Russia
INCLUDING:
11:01:51 Cossack dancing by troops - celebrations.  Soldiers in foggy conditions, some on horseback - grave
11:03:09 The wounded arrive home - carried from railway car - into carriages and trams.
Digging trenches, including women.  Ox carts along road
11:05:13 Graves / Funerals - mourning. Troops in trenches.  Wounded on stretchers. Troops advance.  Dead soldiers
11:08:12  

220693          05:33:28 - 05:43:43            1914 - 1918 SIL       B/W    Italy                WWI - Italian Army in Combat, The - 1914-1918
Italian infantry, cavalry, artillery and ski troops move up to the front lines in the Alps.  Ski troops.  Battle - artillery pieces and machine guns are fired.  German prisoners are brought into camp.  Searchlights are used in trench warfare at night.  Italian troops enter Trento and Fiume and crowds celebrate.  

220733          12:00:09 - 12:14:29            1914 - 1918 SIL       B/W    [WWI - Newsreel Excerpts]
INCLUDING:
12:11:04  Soldiers treated to an outdoors feast to celebrate an allied victory - eating under trees; Catholic service outdoors.
12:11:41  Rebuilding houses in village - reconstruction; Belgian refugees? walking out of house or shop carrying furniture and various household items whilst others queue.  Children eat at outdoors table.  MCU soldier with dog.  Two American soldiers with priest in garden. 
12:13:27  French road construction in Alsace behind allied advance into enemy territory.  Materials  transported on narrow-gauge tracks and on oxcart.

220766          21:34:08 - 21:44:12            1914 - 1918 SIL       B/W   
INCLUDING:
21:39:00  Warships at sea - alarm sounded - battleships firing broadsides.  Turkish battleship sinks.  Crowds celebrate - France? Soldiers marching
21:40:00 King George V, Lloyd George and others out of building.  Winston Churchill poses outside building. 
21:40:16 British troops transported by truck and on foot.  King George V with officer.  Tank demonstration - moody shot tanks moving forward through smoke / gas.
21:41:04  

221092          16:19:48 - 16:25:33     1914 - 1918 c     SIL       B/W    France
[WWI Battle Montage & Armistice Scenes]
INCLUDING:
16:23:34  Armistice - sign on building LArmistice a ete signe - Paris street scenes - celebrations at front.  16:23:52 - End - NOT FOR SALE - Montage / optical sequence featuring war graves, big guns, crowds, troops, Mussolini, Pope, warships, biplanes, Stalin, Gandhi, Hitler & Nazis etc.

220462          08:26:10 - 08:38:00            1914 - 1919 Si         b/w    
INCLUDING:
08:31:52 - 1918 Troops celebrate armistice - American flag. Prisoners of War ? Celebrations in streets - soldier kisses young woman.  Mass celebrations - symbolic coffin carried by crowd.  Crowds celebrating - group in lorry with effigy of German, beating him over head.  VIPs into car.  Tickertape - troops march down avenue in parade.  Celebrations in Paris - VIPs in coaches down crowd lined Champs Elysees. Versailles, Peace conference in room of mirrors .
08:34:30 Historical recreations re signing of  American independence - paintings of early US personages - document Declaration of Independence.  Statue Abraham Lincoln - memorial.  Veterans parade.  Veteran lays flowers on bed ? Confederate veterans, some in wheelchars sit round campfire, waving Confederate flags.
08:37:22  

X221492          03:59:53 - 04:12:26           1914-1918   SD        B/W   
INCLUDING:
04:09:02  King Ferdinand of Bulgaria on train.  Italian troops advance.  Austrian Emperor Karl.  Allenby in Jerusalem w/ Chief Rabbi??.  Sultan of Turkey.  German army retreats in France.  Armistice, newspaper headlines, enemies shake hands & swap helmets.  Montage of Armistice celebrations round the world.
04:10:52  Versailles, gardens & ext. Palace.  Arrivals for peace conference.  President Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau & Vittorio Orlando.  Int. Hall of mirrors, Wilson signing.  Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington cemetery (1950s).  The End.

221384          10:18:27 - 10:23:28            1915 - 1920 SIL       B/W    England;                     
Military Homecoming Parades]
Woman & men in rowboats on Thames watching crew races.
10:18:49  Navy ships past camera.  Pan over fleet at anchor filling large harbor.
10:19:19  Winston Churchill out of car, paying driver. 
10:19:32  MS of fleet at anchor.
10:19:47 - 10:19:55  Title
10:19:55  Military VIP out of carriage as others formally salute.  Military kneeling, standing.  Woman on reviewing stand, military officer leaves w/ colorful flag.  Other military review.
10:20:19  Russian (?) military & Josef Stalin (?) saluting  beside railroad track in sand(?).  Other nationalities in formal military dress parading.  Military brass band playing while passing on horseback followed by mounted units.
10:21:05  Repeat of 10:19:55--10:19:??
10:21:19  Military outside liquor store windows; building w/ shattered windows & broken glass.
10:21:40  Battleship w/ German (?) flag from stern.
10:21:51  Mounted troops through crowds, cheering & waving.  England street scenes w/ crowds, buses, men & boys beside fence staring at camera, one holding Daily Mirror.  Family on balcony.  Troops marching past & women smiling & waving.  Men waving hats, troops marching.  Military saluting.  Montage of various nations (?)

220448          15:16:40 - 15:21:29            1917 - 1918 Si         B/W                            WWI - Newspaper Headlines - Celebrations
INCLUDING: car moving through crowd in square followed by panel truck. Statue / monument  crowded with people waving small flags. Crowd -  people seen looking up towards camera some hold children on their shoulders others hold small US flag.
Parade in progress, coffin carried with effigy.  Top shot group of women, possibly nurses or nuns, in white clothing  standing in the midst of large crowd.  CU Large statue in square is crowded with people, buildings seen in BG; small picture of Statue of Liberty  superimposed in LFG.
Top shot Parade in progress; people seen carrying flags and banners, huge crowd watching.  CU Faces of people in crowd.  CU Men with faces painted black, carrying a coffin on their shoulders through crowd.
CU Flags waving high above street -  street cars seen below moving through crowd, ticker tape falling from buildings on both sides of street.
15:19:26   

220668          19:00:06 - 19:07:11            1917 - 1937 SD        B/W   
INCLUDING:
19:01:37 1917 -  WWI - Big guns firing - soldiers in trenches - over the top.  Aircraft and tanks.
19:01:58 Armistice day 11Nov1918 - crowds celebrate in New York.  Naval ships blown up - graphic re reduction of military strength.  Brief establishing shots Europe and Asia.
19:02:30   

220306          07:44:01 - 07:50:48            1918   Si         B/W                     WWI - Armistice
Sign in French re Peace -  War is Over, Armistice signed.  Crowds celebrating waving flags.  Crowds with flags on balcony of Georgette Hotel ? More celebrating crowds.  Group of children run towards camera  - more celebrations and flag waving.  Conga line formed on streets - troops and civilians celebrate.  French soldiers - one in wheelchair  with girls celebrating.  Black man playing trumpet.  Girl gives flowers to soldier. Top shot celebrating crowds.  Horse drawn carriage.  07:48:50 Wounded taken out of ambulance on stretchers.  Steam train pulls out of station.  Side shot of train showing saloons and dining car.            

220435          00:15:53 - 00:22:52            1918   Si         b/w                 WWI Armistice Celebrations
Soldiers kissing girls from back of truck.  Victory celebrations as crowds parade down French street w/ French & US flags.
00:16:23  President Wilson leaves the White House, FDR beside car -  rides down Pennsylvania Ave.  Shows parade units and crowds in Washington DC - floats, Wilson and wife watching.  Parade with mock coffin of Kaiser.  Black man in beret leads marching band.  Crowd on lawn outside White House.
00:18:46  New York City massed crowd waving to camera.  Crowds in front of Wall Street stock exchange listening to unid. man.  Signs inc. Liberty Cannot Die.  Jewish man blows horn.  Smiling girls in fancy dress. Effigy of Kaiser hanged in NYC in front of City Hall.  Man on truck throttles German effigy.  Parade through crowd and tickertape.  Anti German effigies inc. man wearing skull mask.  Ticker-tape from buildings.  Frantic cheering crowds. 
00:22:44  Woodrow Wilson reading newspaper. 

220657          00:47:31 - 00:50:17            1918   Si         B/W    France             World War One - Armistice Celebrations in Paris  (WWI)
Crowds on the streets - cars and horsedrawn vehicles.  Crowds waving to camera            

220635          14:42:13 - 14:57:33            1918   SIL       B/W    Czechoslovakia                        WWI - The Czechoslovak Revolution Part 3
General Dr. Scheiner and Adjt. Rosicky reading the oath of allegiance in open air.  Czechs arriving back from Italian Front - crowds cheering - military band.   Scheiner and Rosicky review troops.  Street parade, girls in folk dresses - celebrations.  M Klofac, Dr K. Kramarc and Dr. M. Stanek, Minister for Public Works.  Klofac addresses people.  Rally for the new Socialist Democrat republic. 
14:45:09 Col. Husak, Commander of the Czech forces in Russia  reading statement. Huge crowd.  Military band.
14:46:08 French and British pilots.  Zahradnik, minister of railways starts inspection.  Steam train going out to meet presidential train.  President Masaryk with Zahradnik surrounded by crowds.
14:47:28 Presidential train carrying Masaryk - crowds on platform. Masaryk arrives at Horni Dvoriste en route to rague, crowds on RR station cheer.  President and daughter Olga greeted by delegates.  Bread and salt  given.  Czech soldiers guarding train. 
14:48:50 Italian General Luigi Piccioni, Commandants of the Czechoslovak volunteers in Italy greets Pres. Masaryk.  Daughter Olga and son John.
14:49:33 In the name of the Czech replublic, Zahradnik bids the president welcome.  Representatives from the allied countries.  Gen. Piccioni  assures Italys friendship for the new Republic.
14:50:40 Steam train en route for Prague - last leg of journey.  Buildings in Prague with banners and flags of allied nations. Crowds line street.
14:52:11 President Wilson Station - pan down clock tower.  Flag of new republic.  Crowds waving.  The Butchers at the station, men standing to attention with huge cleavers.
14:53:33 Interior station as Presidents train arrives.  Band playing. President out of station and into horse-drawn carriage.  Clement Simon,  French Charg dAffaires and Col. Montgomery Cunningham into waiting carriage.  General Piccioni in open top car moves off through cheering crowds.
14:56:34 Zahradnik, Minister of Railways. into waiting car.  In the royal carriage of the former Emperors, the Hapsburgs, travel Alice, Olga Masaryk and the poet Machar. 



220699          14:00:25 - 14:15:45            1918   SIL       B/W    USA, France                WWI - Armistice Celebrations in Washington, New York, Paris and London Reel 1
President Wilson leaves the White House and rides down Pennsylvania Ave.  Parade units and crowds in Washington, DC.
14:09:29 Jubilant  crowds in New York City.  Jewish man blows horn.  Women in patriotic fancy dress. The Kaiser is hanged & strangled  in effigy.  Map shows line where Germans must retreat. 
14:14:04  Very brief shot Kaiser on horseback.
14:14:37  British General Haig, French General Petain, Italian General Diaz, and King Albert of Belgium review troops outside Paris. President Wilson reads a Washington newspaper.      

220699          14:15:15 - 14:24:28            1918   SIL       B/W    FRANCE, England                     WWI - Armistice Celebrations in Washington, New York, Paris and London Reel 2    
Jubilant crowds congregate in Paris streets, examine captured guns, wave French &  American flags, and read posters; Kaiser burned in effigy. 
14:22:07 King George and Queen Mary visit US wounded at American Red Cross  in London, feed patients, and greet convalescents.

220733          12:43:50 - 13:00:30            1918   SIL       B/W    Czechoslovakia                        The Czecho-Slovak Revolution  [Reel 1]
On 1918 celebrations in Prague as the Habsburg reign ends - independence of Czechoslovakia.
Crowds tear down Austrian street signs,  greet provisional cabinet members (Klofac, Habrman, et al.), and cheer the poet Machar and Premier Kramar.  Signs in German torn from shops and buildings.  St. Wenceslav monument and crowds.  Armoured train sent from Vienna to put down revolution and captured bloodlessly by  Czechoslovaks.  View of crowded Celetena Street and Old town Square.  Dummy of Emperor Charles on cart.  Crowd parade waving handkerchiefs.  Klofac and Ms. Stivin address crowds.  Former Franz Joseph Bridge now called president Wilson Bridge.  Yugoslav delegation welcomed.  Crowds cheer Czechoslovak troops returning from the Italian Army, troops returning from Austria. Statue of Radecky covered up in cloth.  Cartoons and caricatures of Kaiser and Crown Prince.  Photographs on wall of Cabinet of Czechoslovakia including President Wilson.  Troops depart for Slovakia to hold the Hungarian border.  Battisti, the brother of the executed Italian deputy in a car.   Deputies arrive from Switzerland.  First meeting of the Czechoslovak National Assembly.  Soldiers barracks in Prague.  Dr. Scheiner, President of the Sokol gymnastic association.  Huge American & British  flags over crowded square.  Inspection of troops on Old Town square.


220737          19:00:08 - 19:11:12            1918   SIL       B/W    France Belgium                       WWI - How the British Army Broke the Famous Hindenburg Line  [Reel 2]
Mine craters in the roads.  Bombed area, two British soldiers emerge from crater. Bombed landscape , donkey led over rubble by troops.
19:00:41  Concrete oservation tower camouflaged to represent a house.
19:00:59  Lens - The Germans have left barbed wire obstacles on all the ruined streets.  Pan over ruins and barbed wire barricades.
19:01:49  German shells bursting on the outskirts of Lens - explosion fairly close up.
19:02:14  Cambrai - Parts of the town burning - set on fire by Germans (scorched earth). Shaky shots of town in distance in flames. 
19:02:54  British Offensive - Cambrai and Beyond.  Fires and smoke in Cambrai, silhouette of British soldiers.  Burning buildings, Cambrai is occupied and Canadian troops extinguish fires set by the retreating Germans.
19:04:21  Canadian General with his troops in front of burning building.  Silhouette of British soldiers with prisoner of war walking towards camera.  British soldiers fighting fires.
19:06:27  Partly completed German reinforced concrete shelter  - ironwork in place.  Fortifications and barbed wire along the Hindnburg line.  Concrete shelters buried in the trench sides.  Good shots barbed wire defences.  Allied train running along Hindenburg line.
19:09:20  St Quentin Canal where it goes under cliff. 
19:09:58  Scenes in Ostend after Allied troops entered.  Celebrations - civilians wave flags
19:10:17  Celebrations in Lille, cheering crowds as British troops march through town.             

220742          01:44:44 - 01:56:25            1918   SIL       B/W    France             [WWI - Celebrations in Paris - Liberation of Alsace-Lorraine]
Flags flying on top of building w/ spectators & cameramen lookiing over edge.  Massive crowd below.  Oblisk w/ bi-plane flying past & circling.  Paris citizens celebrate the return of Alsace-Lorraine to French rule.  Civilian men marching thru crowd; tank parked.
01:45:45  French soldier w/ big moustache, American flag & bugle walks towards camera in middle of Champs Elysees waving American flag & bugle.  Planes flying over Concorde monument.
01:46:06  VIPs arriving for ceremony, shaking hands.  Upholstered chairs.  President Poincar addresses the crowd.  Many pigeons or doves released. 
01:47:45  Crowds in wide avenue.  Crowds including women in traditional Alsace costume in Champs Elysees.  Crowds w/ flags including American Stars and Stripes.  Very large parade of both civilians & military from Allied nations, also Red Cross nurses.  Many banners; marching unites w/ military caps.  Some wreaths.  Flag of Ireland; Canada military units.  High angle of crowd.  Large English flag.  New Zealand flag & troops; Australian.  South Africa.  (Card says reviewed by Premier Clmenceau & Marshal Joffre)
01:55:58  The crowds dismantle a captured German airplane.
        

220845          06:14:52 - 06:18:40            1918   SIL       B/W    USA                  WWI - Unid. Hollywood Loan Appeal
06:15:27 Stage setting - German HQ just before last Battle of the Marne, actors playing mad looking Germans, waitress brings more wine - they talk of champagne party in Paris.  German officer cuddling unhappy looking waitress.
06:16:10 Title Next month - then in the fall a celebration in New York and all American women will belong to us.   Soldiers getting more drunk and carousing with waitresses.  Man runs in The Yanks are attacking;  US troops run into room and shoot German officrs, pull down German flag and hold up Stars and Stripes. 
Title Four Liberty Loans oversubscribed.  Your dollars, turned into bullets, won the war.  US soldiers celebrate the end of the war.  Curtain falls, audience clap and cheer.  Applause as curtain call taken.   Actor appeals for Victory loan, as he removes make-up becomes Japanese. BanzaI            

220896          16:49:58 - 17:03:28            1918   SIL       B/W    Germany France Turkey         WWI News Excerpts
"Armistice": Pan group of US soldiers - last day  -  Receive pay and say goodbye - De-mob
16:51:06 Pan across  plaza with palm trees in  Nice - US troops walking - soldiers outside YMCA. Open air band & dancing soldier (like early breakdancing).  Troops visit ruins.
16:52:36  Crowds on street outside Victoria Cafe.  Berlin - returning German soldiers.   Girl & soldiers singing; Crowds - German horsemen through crowd lined street
16:55:01 U-boats - divided among Allies - Pan along submarines moored against large ship. U-91.  Cheering sailors Allied ships. Film deterioration.  16:55:38 - 16:56:19
Shots from ship as entering harbour.  German flag flying - changes to British.  Rows of German subs.
16:57:59 Fort of Sedul-Bahr which was shattered by British long range guns.  Shots from ship of ruins of fort. From land of naval ships at anchor.  Big guns pointing out to sea
16:58:33 General DEsperey and staff land at Constantinople to complete the plans of occupation.
16:59:17  Goeben in Allied hands.  Germanys famous warship at anchor.
16:59:34 Crowds cheering - flags waved. Smiling sailors.  LS - VIPs on balcony
17:00:09  American Red Cross in Trieste;  Supplies unloaded at docks.   Soup kitchen, men queue.  Officers out of building, given flowers, into open top car. Crowds celebrate.
17:01:30 Alsace-Lorraine Free  - French troops parade down crowd lined street.  Group of children in traditional dress -  Locals Destroy statue of horse / Kaiser?
17:02:46  French & German soldiers look at one another following Armistice.  French troops parade down road.

220931          21:21:07 - 21:29:22            1918   SIL       B/W    italy; albania              Where Italy Meets The Hun R3 Pt2
Albanian guerrillas decorated by General Ferrero; dancing and celebration.
21:22:11:  LS Arditi Division of Italian Army demonstrate flamethrowers after Battle of Montello, followed by marching infantry. 
21:23:27:  MS Duke of Aosta decorates Italian Automobile Service at ceremony.  Parade of medical trucks w/ inscriptions A Esercito Italiano followed by supply trucks.
21:24:30:  LS pan ceremony at Coliseum in Rome for US achievement on anniversary of declaration of War.  US flag hanging.  US Ambassador Page, Duke of Connaught, Prince Colonna and Senator Marconi in attendance.  AV Coliseum crowded with people viewed from upper level.
21:26:05:  Albanese troops marching led by Italian officers.
21:26:33:  King Albert of Belgium visits Italian front, vars officials and international flags.
21:26:51:  US, British and French troops parade w/ flags in Milan to mark Italys 3rd year in the War. Crowds outside Duomo cathedral, troops march through. Union Jack and US flags held aloft. Crowds around camera waving hats.
 


220748          10:34:37 - 10:47:14            1918   SIL       B/W    France             WWI - Armistice
Crowds on streets  - celebrations. Top shot crowd waving.  Man puts up big sign re amistice signed and war is over.  Crowds celebrate waving American flags.   Crowds with flags on balcony of Georgette Hotel ?  More celebrating crowds.  Group of children run towards camera  - more celebrations and flag waving. Troops and civilians celebrate.  French soldiers - one in wheelchair  with girls celebrating.  Black man playing trumpet.  Girl gives flowers to soldier.  Conga line formed on streets.  Top shot celebrating crowds.  Troops on truck.  French troops march.  Celebrating crowds singing.  Men drining beer at pavement cafe.  Black soldiers share bottle of wine. Top shot crowd.  Horse-drawn carriage.  Soldier leans from truck and kisses young woman.  Parades.  Man lighting street lamp.  Night shots crowds celebrating. 

220411          01:41:25 - 01:50:15            1918   Sd        b/w     USA                  The Story With Two Endings
20th Century Fox  Dir. Lee Strasberg
INCLUDING:
01:42:25  Book - pages open at chapter one & flicked over to The End ?  Returning ship in NYC harbor.
1918 - Printing press - newspaper headlines Armistice -  end of WWI celebrations - crowds  - troops marching parade.
01:43:07

 
220869          19:05:11 - 19:16:24            1919   SIL       B/W    France             France Defeats Roumania At Soccer [Etc.]
Inter-allied Games
Allied nations participate in athletic contests in Pershing Stadium outside Paris.
Soccer game between France and Romania. 
Boxing matches - Fundy, United States vs. De Ponthieu, France;  McNeil, US vs. Watson, Australia  - plane flies overhead during match.  Norton, US vs. Herschvitch, Canada (good MS).  MCU Spike Webb, trainer  of the US boxing team.   Spalla, Italy, knocks out Van Endne, Belgium in the second round. 
4th July celebrations - planes flying low over stadium.
19:08:55 The Composite Regiments exhibition drill on the 4th July
19:09:55  Arabian sword-dance.  Camel race.   Italian general with fencing team - fencing officials posing.
Lieutenant Colonel See of Advisory Committee with Captain  Van Natter, USA.    Fencing contest.  Assembled athletes posing for group portrait; all wave hats at camera and stand up.
American troops sports displays - Mass of US soldiers playing with an enormous ball;  piggy-back races. 
Discus throw - Higgins, US winner.  Italian discus thrower. 
Closing ceremonies - Pershing presents medals to winners.  Allied troops parade at the close of the athletic festival.

220741          00:40:28 - 00:44:38           1914 - 1918 SIL       B/W    [WWI - Newsreel Excerpts]  Pt. 2 of 2
INCLUDING: 00:41:25  Title:  11am  Nov. 11, 1918  Cheering crowds throng the streets in spit of rain.
Military & civilians waving & cheering on trucks, fountain.  King George V, Queen Mary & other royals on balcony at Buckingham Palace (GOOD).  Crowds in the Mall waving.  Royals into carriage, leave St. Pauls after Thanksgiving service. 00:43:27     

220453          23:00:05 - 23:16:13            1916 - 1918 Si         b/w     USA                  President Woodrow Wilson
Focuses on WWI and journey to France for Peace treaty.
Wilson at desk reads files, Flag Day 14Jun1916,  Wilson leads parade carrying US flag. At window, then talks on phone.  Sheep outside White House.  Wilson at desk writes and talks to someone off screen. 2Apr1917, Wilson asks Congress that the US declare war on Germany (probably photograph). 30Sep1918, draws first number in draft lottery out of big jar.  11Nov1918 Armistice Day in Washington, crowds cheering, waving flags in front of White House.  Track past crowd.
President into car with others on way to Capitol, driving away from Capitol, crowds cheer.  Soldiers dance in line in street behind Black man in civilian clothes carrying flag.
Wilson reviews Armistice parade, infantry marches, women march, float with women in white, military from different countries with own flags.
23:07:38: Wilson sails for France to negotiate peace between Germany and Allies.  USS  George Washington leaves New Jersey, steaming.  Crowds wave on dock, seen from moving ship.  View of ship departing. Track on docks with trail of steaming ships and tall buildings in bg.  Presidents flag on board.  Captain Edward McCauley, Jr. Commander of George Washington and Rear Admiral H. S. Knapp on board. McCauley and Commander Perkins. Commander Roesch, Chief Engineer of George Washington on deck smoking. Captain W. B. Pratt and rear Admiral H.S. Knapp.  President and Mrs. Wilson on bridge.  Sunset with mast etc.  Wilson with cap chatting.  Top shot sailors rush to deck for abandon ship drill, untie lifeboats.  Good GV of deck.  Passengers lined up in life jackets incl.  Wilson.  New Ambassador to Great Britain John W. Davis w/wife look through binoculars.  Mrs Gordon Auchincloss, Mrs David H. Miller and Mr. Arthur Bullitt chatting on deck in coats and hats.  French Ambassador Jules Jusserand w/wife wearing elaborate hat.  Mr G.F. Close and Mr. R.C. Sween, confidential secretaries to Wilson on deck.             

220732          10:27:47 - 10:28:37            1918   SIL       B/W    France; England                      WWI - British War Reviews
Historic meeting of King George V with Marshal Foch, Generals Haig and Petain, just previous to the signing of the Armistice.  Group pose for cameras with other officers.
10:28:15  Title Keep Steady and all will be well - Lloyd Georges message to the people last July.  Shows Lloyd George with VIPs and inspecting honour guard.            

220679          15:11:21 - 15:24:16            1918 SIL     B/W     [WWI - Newsreel Excerpts - Armistice]
INCLUDING:
President Ebert visits Helgoland - VIPs walking together.  Cliff faces.   Sea defences.  Pan across gun emplacements and German naval base. 
15:12:28  "Post-War": Verdun - [newly-built ?] monument - inscription on war memorial - ...Memoire des Soldats Francais....  Unid man reading from platform - introduces another unid. man who makes speech -  opening ceremony?  War grave w/ bayonet.
15:13:18  Nivelle at West Point w/ MacArthur - troops in dress uniform inspected.  Cadets drill on field. 
CU VIPs.
15:14:13  "Armistice": Rome - Socialists defeated - crowds on streets & listening to man on balcony - applause.  
15:15:02

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