Exiled members of the Habsburg Dynasty in Southern France. Pretender to Austrian throne Archduke Otto of Habsburg enters a car outside hotel Villa D'Iris, Saint Jean de Luz, France. (16 Rue de Sainte-Barbe, 64500 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France) View of the hotel Villa D'Iris. Sign hanging outside the villa shows the office address of the Hotel Manager at 36 Rue Gambetta, Saint Jean de Luz. A white sheet is hanging on the balcony railing of the villa. Former Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma (wife of the late Emperor Charles I of Austria), enters a different car outside the hotel Villa D'Iris. She is accompanied by two women, likely two of her daughters.
Soldiers walk along with prisoners of war at a field in France. Vehicles pass on the field. Soldiers move on tank. They rest in the field.
Soldiers in trenches in a field in France. They dig trenches. Trees in the background. Soldiers stand in a foxhole. They move on horse-carts on the field. Cars passing on the street. Soldiers load luggage on the horse-carts and move on the field. They enter Longmont. Wrecked houses, buildings and trees in the area. Wreckage in the field.
A film showing the Wright Brothers who created history in the field of aviation. Orville Wright smiles. Wilbur Wright and two Frenchmen on an airfield in France. Rows and rows of aircraft parked on a large airfield. Junker type aircraft stationary. Rows and rows of small Italian aircraft. Russian four-engine bombers pass over Moscow, Soviet Union. A formation of early bombers. A formation of early model U.S. aircraft.
Austrian Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, wife of the late ex-Emperor Karl I and the last Empress of Austria, descends stone steps in the gardens of the Villa Annunciata Hotel (Today the CCAS Holiday Apartment at Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France), adjacent to the Monastery of the Annunciation (2135 Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France). A traditional brick-lined well in the garden. Stone steps in a lush garden. Rose bushes and other plants growing. Trellis with vines. A road in Menton, hills are seen in the background. Distant view of Villa Annunciata Hotel, camera pans to view of the Monastery of the Annunciation and its chapel. Sign hanging beside the arch reads “Monastère” (“Monastery” in English).
Exiled members of the Habsburg Dynasty and their followers in Menton, France. Count Heinrich von Degenfeld, a loyal aristocratic follower of the Habsburg household, walks his dogs in the Hotel Villa Annunciata’s Garden (Today the CCAS Holiday Apartment at Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France) View of Monastery of the Annunciation in the background. Count von Degenfeld reads a newspaper inside the villa. Count von Degenfeld poses on the side of the road leading to the Monastery of the Annunciation in Menton. Count von Degenfeld smiles while sitting on a garden bench. The count descends from stone stairs with his dogs. Count von Degenfeld strolls in the garden.