The footage includes war damage in an apparently abandoned town (the sign on a house wall says Mons, Belgium), an airplane landing in a field, zoo animals, a military parade, Austrian Emperor Franz Jo...
The film starts with a cartoonist drawing figures which then animate themselves. The Kaiser sharpens a knife to carve up the world, the figures "1914" flying from the sparks. He and Franz Josef gloat ...
(Reel 1) The film opens with unrelated scenes of the Western Front, mainly the Marne and Château-Thierry areas. Then Theodore Roosevelt beside the grave of his son Quentin. Behind-the-lines scenes of...
Ilse Trautschold, Paul Westermeier
Gustav Diessl, Paul Westermeier (v.l.n.r.)
Roland Kaiser, Hubert von Meyerinck, Christiane Jansen, Paul Klinger, Margarete Haagen (v.l.n.r.)