WARTIME FILM.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 19 March 1927, Page 9

WARTIME FILM.

GERMANY’S DARING ENTERPRISE.

By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. BERLIN, March 17.

What is claimed as the greatest war time film, giving a complete,, monumental record, is about to be released. The producing company was granted official assistance and also access to the Government’s vast archives.

It firstly reviews Europe pre-war, with the nations bristling with bayonets The prologue makes clear hew militarism made the outbreak inevitable. There are the actual scenes’ of the crucial days of 1914, and the battlo pictures range from tile opening skirmishes in Flandgi-s to the battle of the Marne, and include Marshal iiindenburg’s march to attack Russia, and thrilling series in pictures of naval and aerial battles taken at the time. Radical journals attack the film declaring that the employment of trick photography made possible a g’gantic trick film which ought to bo entitled “The Vanquished were Victorious.”