Archives Give Up Secrets of the War

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 100, 1 May 1935, Page 5

Archives Give Up Secrets of the War

RELENTLESS TRUTH TOLD IN “PIRST WORLD WAR” (State: Screening Wednesday Next.) Mankind’s shame! That is strikingly shown in the Fox Film production, “The First World War,” which will bring home in Jubilee Week what our troops went through 'do uphold British tradition. Out of the past, from the sealed and guarded archives of the great nations, the truth arrives ai last, according to those who have witnessed this amazing motion picture.

Hero, it is said, is tlic first authentic and uncensored screen record of the great conflict —and more than that, lhe very sources of tho World War are said to be pictured in the film, for many motion picture records of events leading up to tho conflict are hero given to the' public for tho first time. Intimate glimpses of Europe’s royalty in tho years before tho war, of their conferences, their alignments, their secret plans, have been entrusted to Fox Film for uso in this picture.

Besides these, there are sensational and hitherto unscreened pictures of the important battles of the war —both on land and sea —and a great variety of glimpses of life behind the fronts. Laurence Stallings, who conceived the best-selling volume, “Tho First Great War,” has acted in capacity of editor for tho film based on his book. Simon and Schuster, publishers of the book, have acted in an advisory capacity in the making of the film, and Truman Talley is named as producer. Tho grim evidence is at hand at last—“ Mankind’s greatest confession.” To judge from all advance reports, “The First World War” is a film not to be missed.