The Washington herald., 1915-01-18
WAR FILMS Will
BE Shown HERE
The Washington Herald Ar
ranges for Movies of
Actual Fighting.
SEE THEM AT COLONIAL
These Reels Will Be Run Daily for
One Week Beginning on
Next Monday.
SEE THEM AT COLONIAL

By special arrangement The Washing
ton Herald has arranged to show for the
second time in Washington authentic re-
productions in motion pictures Of the war
in Europe. a very minor part of the
great struggle between nations is within
the realms of realization through the
avenue OF newspaper accounts published
on censors' reports coming from the
various European capitals.
The introduction Of the motion picture
camera as a means of recording warfare,
brings the scenes of strife right 10 our
very door. and makes it possible for us,
in our secure position undisturbed by
these calamities aboard, to visit the ac-
tual scenes of the turmoil.
The pictures will be shown daily, be-
ginning next Monday at the Colonial
Theater, 927 Pennsylvania avenue.
1t would be impossible to recite all
the scenes caught on this 5000 feet of
film, but some OF the features passing
before you are Zcppclins flying over the
outskirts of Paris, the engagement OF
British and German ships. civil panic
In the form OF a run on a national bank
of Brussels. artillery battle outside Lou
vain, Belgian-German' fight at Namur
German army entering Brussels surren-
der OF Brussels to the Germans, terror
stricken inhabitants fleeing from the city.
field guns in action near Antwerp, the
mad dash of dog-drawn mitrailleuses into
a battle, the speeding armored motor
cars, some of them turretted, which have
done so much damage to German Uhlans;
the wicked belching OF long range field
guns in action. the armored train at
Arvin firing broadsides as it passes Cthe
daring photographer was standing on the |
cab of the engine, unprotected. while !
taking this piCturel motor busses OF all |
nations passing through Ypres on the |
way to Roulers. the bombardment of |
Ghent, and a thousand other details Of |
life and death. i
Real Fighting shown.
These scenes arr most extraordinary |
in view of the distance between the |
armies and the long-range fighting in
this war by telephone orders and auJ
t0mobile messengers. In these pictures
YOU will see the Germans and allies ac-
tually engaged in A battle.
For the second time in history noncom-
batants may sit in the comfort OF a
theater chair. and witness all the de-
tails of civilization in convulsion and
history in the making. Daring photog-
raphers faced sho: and shell, hunger,
cold. disease, execUtion-all the innum-
erable horrors and Inconvenience OF war
to obtain these moving pictures on the
actual firing line.
in sequence of events which makes
the entertainment a liberal education
and a full report of what is happening
across the water.
While cavalry and infantry charges
are shown. with desperate men storm
ng trenches held by an enemy equally ,
desperate. artillery dueIs and opposing
earthwOrks peopled with soldiers firing :
upon each other, there are lighter touches ! :
too.
For instance. in almost every picture
the fight of noncombatants :
from the war-torn sections the house !
hold pets Of the refugees inpart a touch }
Of comedy. Such an instance is found
in the action of the friendly and hos
pitable Belgian dogs welcoming the !
invading German hosts with tails awag !
and yelping in happy chorus.
Again, the children contribute a re-
lief from the somber and sordid tale of Z
strife, for even in their pitifuI plight the !
round and ruddy Flemish youngsters can
not refrain from childish pranks that are !
the more amusing because Of their ghast- !
y background of waste and desolation.