The Czar's troops invade Austria during World War I. Russian soldiers advance and move into action. Invading army from Russia with cavalry troops wade through water channel. The soldiers fire rifles. View of trench warfare scene with German soldiers firing from trench. Soldiers fire artillery in an open field. Smoke in the background. Soldiers advance ahead of their artillery. View inside a German trench as a German officer and German soldiers hop down to trench floor, some walk by with rifles. Activity in the trench. Two soldiers walk carrying a machine gun together.
Kaiser Karl I reviews troops of the Royal Hungarian Honved Division in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, during World War 1.. Troops stand in formation. The Kaiser talks to a soldier. Soldier also replies. The Kaiser turns back to another soldier and salutes. (WWI; WW1)
The Imperial coach arrives for the coronation of Emperor Charles I (Karl I) of Austria (King Karoly IV, of Hungary) in Budapest, Hungary. Crowd lined up at the ceremony. Crown Prince Otto looks out from inside the royal coach. Empress Zita, steps from the coach on the opposite side. Two men in ceremonial regalia talking to each other. An attendant looking after Crown Prince Otto. The attendant moving the crown prince to the back seat and covering him with a coverlet. Emperor Charles is seen mounted on a white horse.
The Macedonian front during World War I. Street scene with merchant stalls that shows various nationalities, including Turks, and soldiers of Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary in Scopje, Macedonia during World war 1. Row of shops displaying wares, including butcher shop. Scene shifts to what slate describes as a new neighborhood district. Seen is the old stone bridge (Kameni Most) over the Vardar River in the city center, where local people are seen in everyday pursuits, moving wagons and carrying bundles on the street and over the bridge. Soldiers cluster around a striped booth at the foot of the bridge. Another scene shows troops entering a camp area along a river. Some are digging trenches. Smoke rises from camp fires. Wagons of military supplies being pulled by horses and oxen and gathering at a railroad siding (box cars in background). A staff car drives into the area, displaying a German flag on its hood and the German Eagle crest on its door. It skids about momentarily in the mud. Supplies being loaded into the railroad box cars under supervision of German officers. Troops marching into an encampment, where others are being served food from a German field kitchen. Rifles are stacked in a large mound. Soldiers line up and appear to be receiving their pay at a paymaster window in a building. Troops in full field gear march, in a loose column, out of the encampment. German infantry in pointed helmets (Pickelhauben) marching, out of camp, through mud toward the front lines.
Emperor Karl I (Charles I) of Austria-Hungary and wife Empress Zita ride in a carriage and greet people in Gyongyos (Heves County) in Hungary. Emperor Karl I waves from carriage. Horse-drawn carriage proceeds slowly as numerous soldiers and citizens surround it on three sides and accompany it.
Crowd surrounds carriage, as Empress Zita of Austria steps into it to depart during her visit to Krakau (Krakow) Poland, where a Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army was headquartered during World War 1. Flags fly in the area. The Empress's carriage is drawn by a pair of matched white horses. (WWI; WW1)