Propaganda film comes out against Germans (1918)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit A film meant to discourage the audience from feeling sympathy for the German people dramatizes German soldiers harassing a new mother Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Leopard’s Spots UNKNOWN: INT/EXT MAIN TITLE (14ft) LV. War damaged street - bodies lying in the road, gunsmoke in b.g. Woman holding her baby runs out of shop into street, two German soldiers come round corner (30 ft) SV. She pleads with them in desperation but they kick her & throw her baby to the ground. (59ft) TITLE: ONCE A GERMAN, ALWAYS A GERMAN. (64ft) CU. The two German soldiers are transformed into German salesmen. (75 ft) TITLE: AND WHEN ALL THIS IS OVER, THE MEN WHO WILL PENETRATE OUR PEACEFUL ENGLISH VILLAGES WITH GERMAN GOODS TO SELL... (85ft) SV. The two German salesmen walking down an English village street - one goes into a house wit
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