From The Indianapolis Star, Sunday, November 29, 1914: The most graphic and realistic motion pictures ever made of a great war are those taken by Edwin F. Weigle, staff photographer for the Chicago Tribune. The four different reels of film, “On Belgium Battle Fields,” will be displayed all this week at the Colonial Theater to benefit the Belgian Red Cross and The Star Christmas Fund. The pictures were taken at the actual fighting front and every phase of war is shown in all its hideousness – hundreds of refugees and wounded soldiers fleeing the German wrath straggling along the dust choked road to Alost; an armored Belgian motor car with a machine gun firing at the oncoming enemy; men, women, and children in frantic flight across a beet field; and Antwerp’s destruction by persistent bombardment and by fire and sword.
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