The only thing I own that gets close to these is in the attached picture.
I had a standard 78 RPM, visible on the right, which unfortunately was cracked (the crack is not easily visible in picture, but it goes from the centre spindle hole to the outer border and it has a gap, as if the material of the record was shrinking, or it had internal strain). I thought I was never going to see another unit of the same record in my whole life, but shortly after I've found a "smaller" version of the same title and I couldn't believe my eyes!
The two records contain a
faux war scene re-enacted in studio - not to an impressive effect I would say - and titled Le Grandi Manovre. This type of records were called
scene dal vero"(scenes from life), and although not best sellers, I suppose they must have had a market at their times as I own several. Aside from wartime sketches, I recall harvesters singing while they go to the vineyard, people taking trains at the station, and so on.
The standard record is one-sided, and on the back it has the big "cross" logo of Zonophone and the
reproduced in Germany claim. Quite oddly, the smaller record is instead two-sided, and has another re-enacted military scene on the back (Uscita del Tenente Colonnello Galliano da Makallè - and yes, he
is the Galliano to whom the Galliano liqueur is dedicated to). There is no reference about it being pressed in Germany or elsewhere, but I believe it was manufactured in Germany just as well. The smaller record was also recorded at an odd speed; when I used it in my
Il Suono della Grande Guerra commemoration I marked down that the voices sounded natural at 70 RPM.