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[WWI - Newsreel Excerpts] (titles are flash titles)
View in French front line trenches, soldiers relaxing & looking over top.  Good shots troops in trenches smoking and relaxing.  
00:19:22  Supply wagons thru mud toward camera w/ line of trucks on road behind headed in opposite direction.
00:20:01  Good shot large battleship w/ camouflage steaming towards & past camera.  Same ship w/ two open metal towers makes pass from other direction.
00:20:45   Title:  Belgian Armoured Cars.  Many of these cars have been sent to Russia and assist in holding back the Germans.
Men standing next to armored car w/ mounted guns.  Men stop & dismount, salute.  Car backed up (nitrate decomp).
00:21:17  Title:  Belgian Motor Cycle Corp. 
Troops w/ rifles & motorcycles on brick road, possibly bridge stand beside & sit on motorcycles. 
00:21:37  Title:  Joffre.  Animation - cartoon using the letters of the name Joffre, turns it into caricature of Joffre rolling up sleeves to beat the Germans.
00:22:45  Title:  The Deutschland - Germany's submarine liner arriving at Baltimore, USA.
Large cargo submarine w/ two radio antennas on surface w/ crew on deck, escorted by tugs.  Various shots w/ city & river bank beyond.  German flag & Deutschland - Bremen on aft.  CU Captain Paul Koenig; MS crew.  Part out of rack.
00:24:10  Unid. troops, possibly Russian.  Supply wagons & medics on horseback out of yard.  Good shots almost silhouette of line of troops along snowy country road.  Frost on trees.
00:25:10  Largew number of troops (probably Russian on muddy parade ground present arms & march.
00:25:57  Title:  Ratify or Reject.  Dail Eireann meet.  Irish Parliament assemble to decide the all important question (Whether to go to war?).
00:26:05  Unid. location.  Crowds wait outside building as politicians arrive.  Men leavie car past camera.  LS spectators watching  from distance, police.  Pan large building w/ columns across front.  VIPs out & down steps.
00:27::00  Three British submarines at anchor alongside warship, seen from water.  Scotland's Forth Road bridge in BG.  Sub K-15 preparing to dive; two funnels fold in CU.  Sub dives w/ deck guns in place.  Sub underway on surface at speed, much black smoke.  Two crew along deck of fast moving sub breaking waves over bow.  Officers pose on sub K6 in good MS.

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