This silent film shows “The War on the Ground”. It consists of footage shot by British and American cameramen during World War I, and was released in the 1960s. At 1:35 German prisoners are seen being moved behind allied lines. At 3:08 a French mortar is fired by an artillery crew with effects seen at 3:41. At 5:00 newly acquired French positions in a captured German trench are shown. At 5:31 a German graveyard, now behind French lines, is shown. At 6:49 supply wagons including a field kitchen are on the move while at 7:13 armored cars file down a road. At 8:22 a large group of French soldiers, equipped with new steel helmets, mills about. At 10:40 a railroad car with an artillery piece on it is elevated for firing. This is probably a Canon de 240mm L modele 1884, a well known type of siege artillery At 11:29 troops move artillery across a pontoon bridge. At 14:32 German prisoners are interrogated. At 14:35 some German prisoners from the Battle of Champagne are shown, some of 25,000 captured. They are inside a stockade. At 20:16 various ordnance is displayed including hand grenades, bombs and torpedo type charges.

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