Historical Film No. 1120, Signal Corps, US Army
Historical Film No. 1120, Signal Corps, US Army
*NOTE: Poor quality master.* TITLE: "The Battle of the North Sea. Animated from data contained in British and German reports official and unofficial." Another title card comes up showing how english and German ships are differentiated and categorized as: Dreadnaught, Battle-Cruiser, Cruiser, Destroyer, Zeppelin. Map of the north sea. TITLE: The German Naval Base Behind The Defenses of Helgoland" Showsmapof North sea with German ships placed. TITLE: "The Approximate British Naval Rendezvous." North Sea Map with English ships placed. TITLE: "SUndown, May 30th 1916. Admiral Beatty's English battle cruiser squadron on patrol (rest of title obscured byt ime code window)."Animated ships move across map of north sea. TITLE: "...is discovered by a scouting Zeppelin." Animated map shows Zeppelin and ships in motion. TITLE:"On this information the German Fleet sails to bag Beatty." Various shots cavalry and soldiers marching down road with cattle in foreground. Soldiers marching through street, cars and trucks on road. Cavalry and troops on country road. Cavalry and troops marching across narrow river bridge. More shots, some troops with bicycles. Two soldiers struggle to pull a horse up a steep incline. WS of what seems to be a collapsed bridge structure. Troops, people gethering in town square. Horse pulled wagons though town. Truck caravan. Troops marching on road. Long rows of troops marching through town. Var. shots of soldiers. Damaged bridge at 22::55. At 23:45 good shot of soldiers talking to peasant field workers with baskets on their backs. MS of large ships (Erencz Ferdinand). Soldiers marching through town. Long columns.