First World War on Film

News & Research Updates on our Publications about the American Cinematographers and Films of World War I

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Germany's Official World War I Film Squads

From November 1916 the German government took control of all film activities, culminating in the incorporation of the Universum Film AG (UF...

Monday, December 14, 2015

The Great War Day by Day

To commemorate the centennial of the first exhibition on November 28, 1915 of Wilbur Durborough's World War I film On the Firing Line wi...

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Signal Corps Scoop - Capturing the Big Four at Versailles (1919)

The Treaty of Versailles not only put an official end to World War I. The international conference was also a major media event that attract...

Monday, November 16, 2015

Found! Merl laVoy's "Heroic France" (USA, 1917)

Merl la Voy, circa 1920 Long considered lost, Merl la Voy's war film Heroic France (USA, 1917) has been partially retrieved by au...

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