Other titles:SEMANA MESSTER 44 1915 (on copy held) [Alternative Title]
Summary:I. Portuguese language version of a German newsreel showing the Swiss Commander-in-Chief, General Wille, talking with officers and civilians at a review of his own troops in Switzerland, autumn 1915.
Description:Soldiers just out of the front lines laugh, joke and wrestle together while resting at a farm. A marching column in full kit leaves its barracks for the trenches. A boiler-distiller for providing fresh water is demonstrated. A steamroller helps local people to repair a road, possibly near Brussels. Officers fraternise with the local people at the château where they have been billeted. A German orderly tends and decorates the graves of a French soldier. Two soldiers exhibit a fragment of a British 15-inch shell which fell one metre from the local church. Soldiers in the rear areas use sewing machines for making sandbags. Soldiers go forward in the front lines to occupy a mine crater blown by the British. Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria talks to soldiers close to the front lines. A guard in a front line trench sees danger through a trench periscope and calls out the troops who man the fire-step. A training exercise for an attack supported by grenades.
Alternative Title:SEMANA MESSTER 44 1915 (on copy held) [Alternative Title]
