Opening scene shows Tyrolean town of Kufstein nestled in Brandenberg Alps in Austria. A young Austrian woman and a soldier in uniform sit on a hillside with part of the Kufstein Fortress in the background (Festung 2, 6330 Kufstein, Austria). A Music professor named "Butler" sits at the famous organ (Heldenorgel), the world's largest open-air organ, in the Kufstein Kaiser turm (Imperial tower). He plays music as a wedding party stands, listening, outside. View through the building window shows the bride and her new husband, a German officer in uniform, surrounded by family and friends in a courtyard, outside. Scene shifts to the courtyard in sunlight and shadow, where townsfolk, including many children, are assembled. A large military style German Cross of stone dominates the foreground. Closeups of wounded German soldiers attended by a nurse. A German sailor in uniform stands with several girls. The organ music permeates the scene. View from behind spectators leaning over a railing shows the courtyard to be somewhat oval. Locals in traditional Tyrolean costumes are part of the crowd. Closeups of various persons in attendance. Glimpse of the organ pipes showing this to be an impressive instrument. Camera pans from the pipes to an opening in a tower, where they are located, revealing a panoramic view of the town and landscape below. Among things seen below are Saint Vitus Church and other significant buildings. View from afar of Kufstein Fortress and Brandenberg Alps with clouds behind. View framed by fruit tree blossoms across a field being plowed by farmer and team of oxen. The town in the background. More scenic views.
Willian Jennings Bryan, campaigning for President Wilson, as a private citizen, in 1916 (after having resigned as Wilson's Secretary of State). He stands in a car decorated with patriotic bunting and an American flag, in front of modest house in a rural area. Bryan is accompanied by several associates. A popular Wilson campaign photograph (coming loose at the top) is attached to the car door . The writing under Wilson's picture is not legible. As Bryan sits down in the car, his wife, Mary, is seen next to him. (She had been blocked from the camera while he stood.) The car drives away. In complete change of scene, a crowd is seen completely filling the lawn and grounds of "Shadow Lawn," President Wilson's Summer White House, at Long Branch, New Jersey. They have come to celebrate his renomination as Democratic candidate for President. Camera pans over the crowd. Next, President Wilson is seen standing on a step in the center of the garden, acknowledging and accepting the nomination.
Steel plant operating in Italy. Open hearth furnace is charged. Furnace is tapped and molten steel flows. Ingots pulled. Hot rolling. Hot forging. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Views inside a Munitions factory operating in Italy, during World War 1. Italian munitions workers lower a large sleeve over a newly manufactured long gun barrel. The sleeve contains gas jets that are ignited (probably to anneal the gun barrel steel). Other views show extremely large gun barrels in the plant and large shells to fit them.
Manufacturing of Italian ammunition during World War I. Gun turrets machine being tooled by men at an ammunition plant in Italy. Men and women work at the plant to manufacture weapons. Guns mounted on tripods. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Manufacturing of Italian ammunition during World War I. Trench mortar shells manufactured at an ammunition plant in Italy. Shells lined up on the ground and welded. Workers clear openings for explosives in the shells, then fill them with gunpowder and tamp them using wooden mallets. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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