From The Indianapolis News, Friday, September 11, 1914: The first moving picture war films to arrive in Indianapolis from Europe was shown today at a private exhibition to an audience of moving picture men at the Lyric Theater under the direction of the Empress Feature Film Co. The pictures impress the reality of the war in a way that dispatches fail to do, and vividly display the Belgian military preparations for opposing the German advance. Unusually fine photographs show Belgian troops in action at the fighting line and peasants distributing water to the men. There is a total of sixteen scenes in the first series including views of the English troops which were sent to Belgium; the inspection of aeroplanes; Belgian troops marching on Namur and artillery outside of Louvain; and many other scenes at the front.