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The War to End All Wars Pt3/4 221492-06X.mp4 | Footage Farm

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Narrator Quentin Reynolds to camera re WWI, war at sea.  
Germans sink merchant shipping en route to England.  
03:47:40  Surface torpedoes launched from British ship. Good explosions. 
03:47:55  German submarine diving, int. U-boat, torpedo loaded, periscope, firing on shipping.  Ship sinking.  New York Times newspaper headlines of sinking of Lusitania. Lusitania leaves NYC.
03:48:50  Capitol, President Wilson in office.
03:49:05  Q-boats at sea, German sub spotted, gun uncovered & fired at sub.  British fleet at sea.  German fleet, ships underway.  Ships en route for Jutland.  Good battle scenes, ships firing, torpedoes launched, explosions.  Ships sinking.  German ships, some damaged. (May NOT be Battle of Jutland).
03:52:49  King George V boards naval ship, sailors march past.
03:52:57  Quentin Reynolds speaks to camera.
03:53:05  Sea battles in Mediterranean.  Italian navy firing on coastal towns of Austria.  Small Italian gunboat or motor torpedo boat at speed after Austrian battleship Saint Stephen, 10Jun18.  Battleship hit by two torpedoes, Crew on deck of sinking battleship & jumping as ship capsizes. 
03:55:13  Reynolds on Russian Revolution.
03:55:25  France, Paris, Arc de Triomphe & Eiffel Tower, street scenes 1930s?
03:55:41 Russian troops on troop train w/ armored cars, snowy.  Montage Russian troops in various situations, wounded.  Tsar Nicholas inspecting Cossack troops.  Cossack charge during 1905? revolution. Peasants armed with sticks fight with Tsarist troops (some stage). 
03:57:00  1917 Russian troops, peasants, famine.  Striking workers meeting.  Petrograd, riots.  Czar w/ wife and family.  Uprising, crowds with banners, Moscow.  
03:58:23  Reynolds & Eugene Lyons of Readers Digest discuss revolution.  Lyons speaks re Kerensky.  Shots Kerensky, crowds & troops on street.  Continued...
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