How Britain prepared
Contributors: Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of, 1848-1930; Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945; Urban, Charles; Patriot Film Corporation (New York, N.Y.); Belasco Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1916
Language: eng
Subjects: Motion pictures and the war; World War, 1914-1918
Other titles: How Britain prepared (Motion picture)
Description: Bill of the play. Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., David Belasco and Sam S. and Lee Shubert, proprietors and managers, direction of Sam S. and Lee Shubert (Inc.), L. Stoddard Taylor, resident manager. "How Britain Prepared," official films of the British Empire, produced under the auspices of Earl Kitchener, Minister of War, Hon. Arthur Balfour, 1st Lord of the Admiralty, Hon. Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions. Made under the direction of Charles Urban, Patriot Film Corporation, New York, lessees and distributors.
Notes: Belasco Theatre, Washington, D.C., week of Monday, May 15, 1916, beginning Tuesday night, matinee every day.

Title devised by Library staff.

"The Bill of the Play, season 1915-1916, Belasco Theatre. Vol. XI, no. 34"--p. 10 and cover.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Showing how five million British civilians were turned into a highly efficient army within fifteen months. a. Recruiting and drilling of volunteers; title: b. Making munition (manufacturing shrapnel shells); title: c. The visit of H.M. King George V to the ordnance works of Messrs. Vickers, Ltd.; title: d. Trench work; title: e. Cavalry, artillery, and mounted infantry; title: f. Field Telegraph and Signalling Corps; title: g. Royal Flying Corps; title: h. Motor-cycle machine-gun section (four batteries) at work; title: i. Provisioning an army; title: j. His Majesty King George V; title: k. Off to the front; title: l. Fighting in Flanders; title: Interval; title: Part II. How Britain controls the seas with the Great North Sea Fleet on guard and in action. l. Building and launching a battleship, scenes at the naval construction works fo Messrs. Vickers, Ltd.; title: m. A naval gun in the making; title: n. On a British mine-sweeper; title: o."The Silent Sentinel"; title: p. With the grand fleet inthe North Sea; title: q. The submarine service; title: r. "Jack Afloat"; title: s. The "Hornets" of the fleet; title: t. Battleships in action.