The paintings or photographs follow in quick succession. First, Franz Josef as a young man, dissolving to him as an old man. His villa at Bad-Ischl. Wilhelm II of Germany with Franz Josef. Franz Josef...
Single sculls (not racing boats) are raced. This is followed by a gondoliers' race, then coxed fours and pairs, all by the waterfront. Next shown are racing sailboats, filmed from a nearby boat which ...
A training exercise on gently rolling slopes begins with 77mm field guns and trench mortars opening the bombardment, joined by light howitzers. An intercut scene of Austro-Hungarian troops walking dow...
The merchant vessel has run aground on the shoreline just below the cliffs. Nothing else is in sight.
Newsreel item on the wreck of the SS Boston at Filey, Yorkshire, December 1914.
Allied troops, mainly French, patrol the streets of the town. The house of Mathias Corvinus, the fifteenth century astrologer, is shown. People queue to vote in the plebiscite. The local paper gives t...
Two aircraft, described as "hydroaeroplanes", are on the water. The first, a monoplane, looks like an adaptation of the Morane-Saulnier H Type, the second a variant on the Farman M Type design. The mo...
Italian soldiers and refugees walk down a road, returning home with their belongings, across the Italian-Austrian border. Austro-Hungarian troops camp in hill country, with horse transport passing. Th...
Field Artillery fire a 75mm M16 field gun. Riflemen practise firing lying down at a range, and then retire.
Newsreel item on the US Army in training on the Pacific Coast of America, April or May ...