Manufacturing of Italian ammunition during World War I. A group of munitions workers pose for picture. They are mostly women and children but include some men. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
World War I Allies Conference meeting in Paris. Mr Baron Sonnino and Signor Salandra, representatives of Italy arrive in Paris. Photographers stand with a camera. Crowd waves to them. Mr Aristide Briand the French Prime Minister, General Joffre and Admiral Lagaze. Mr Briand comes out of a building and sits in a car. Dignitaries come out of the building. General Cadorna Italian Commander in Chief walks on the sideway. Mr M Denny Cochin gets off a car. M Pashitch, the Serbian Prime Minister and Lord Bertie, the British ambassador to France come out of a Building. Lord Kitchener comes out of building and stands. Crowd on the street.
Iron ore being offloaded from a ship, in large steel buckets, on to a flat car, at a port. A large crane dumping ore into a large open railroad container car, during World War 1. Coke being discharged after being processing from coal, at a steel plant. A traveling crane conveying a large container of raw material to the top of a furnace at a steel plant. Fire emitted from a crucible at a steel plant. An ingot being forged. Sequence shifts to views inside an Italian heavy artillery factory, where an annealing wrap is being lowered around a large gun barrel and heated with a gas fire. Huge gun barrels seen on machining floor. Machinists turning gun barrels on very large lathes. View through a gun barrel showing its spiral rifling. Machinists in a crowded shop where all machines are driven by leather belts. More views of gun barrels being turned on lathes. A man seated at the controls of a huge milling machine that revolves around the work piece, fastened to the machine bed.
Italian troops in the Tyrolean Italian Alps, during World War I. Extensive labrinth of sandbagged paths and shelters in the mountains. Stones on top of canvas covers to keep them from blowing. Cables of the Teleferica cableway are seen stretched along the side of the mountain. A picture and description of the cableway. Italian Bersaglieri troops cleaning their weapons and making preparations. Valley seen far below them in background. A small shrine in side of rocks. Troops marching down a path from a fort. A military canine with utility pack on its back entering a bunker. Soldiers behind sandbagged fortifications high in the mountains. They carry a machine gun and ammunition boxes up steps and set up a firing position.