First World War.com - Vintage Video

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King Edward VII Vintage Video - Pre-1914
Updated - Saturday, 21 February, 2004

This page of the Vintage Video section of the website contains archive footage of personalities and events filmed during the years immediately preceding the outbreak of war in 1914.

Each recording is titled along with a brief description, together with the year of recording. All files are in WMV format (Windows Media); the file size is indicated in kilobytes. As is to be expected given the age of the material no audio accompanies the film footage.

	Otto von Bismarck (Details) Germany, 1890s (3 seconds, WMV 44kb)
	King Edward VII on Horseback (Details) Balmoral, 1909 (18 seconds, WMV 228kb)
	Funeral of King Edward VII (Details) London, 1910 (90 seconds, WMV 1,076kb)
	Joseph Caillaux's Cabinet (Details) Paris, 1911 (10 seconds, WMV 129kb)
	Kaiser Wilhelm II's Military Gathering (Details) Berlin, 1913 (26 seconds, WMV 350kb)
	Death of Suffragette at Epsom Derby (Details) Epsom, 1913 (9 seconds, WMV 124kb)
	Kaiser Wilhelm II Meeting His Generals (Details) Berlin, 1913 (16 seconds, WMV 207kb)
	Lord Haldane (Details) London, 1913 (16 seconds, WMV 652kb)

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