Product Highlights
Produced by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1918, this is one of the earliest efforts to create a government newsreel. You'll see recruits being inspected; view intense battles, including the use of heavy artillery and aerial dogfights; visit the trenches to see everything from slop buckets to prisoner interrogations; and much more. You even get looks at the soldiers' wide variety of animal mascots! Includes the animated 1918 short, The Sinking of the Lusitania, a silent, anti-German propaganda film that details the RMS Lusitania's sinking by a German U-boat. B&W, silent, 1 hr. 13 min. total runtime.
