Second Italo-Ethiopian war. Defensive posts are shown in a field in Ethiopia. Emperor Haile Salassie visits and walks among his Ethiopian fighters. Sights include community walls, statue of a bull, and village surroundings.Some Ethiopian troops are uniformed, but many are not and carry primitive weapons.
Second Italo-Ethiopian war. Ethiopian fighters come out of a public building in Ethiopia. They accompany Emperor Haile Salassie to his car. Ethiopian fighters follow in trucks. An Ethiopian tribesman poses in ancient warrior garb.
Emperor Haile Salassie poses for pictures in front of a tree in Ethiopia. He is then driven away in his car.
Film opens with view from a high point of the city of Rome, Italy. St. Peter's Basilica is seen in the background. Camera focuses on a group of men crowded together in a fenced area atop a construction project. Closer view reveals Benito Mussolini wielding a pick alongside other workers. After a moment, he puts the pick down and goes to the end of the area where he stands on something to make him visible above the others, and gives a fascist salute. View of St. Peter's from the elevated work site. Closeup of ordinary workers clearing rubble from the construction site. Film goes black momentarily and then shows the crowded work site seen in the earlier footage. Mussolini is handed the pick and uses it for a longer time than previously shown. He and others leave the work site. More views of St. Peter's Basilica. Views of trams and light traffic on a street below. More views of apartment houses and St. Peter's. Film interrupted and then shows closeup of men working on the construction site.
Second Italo-Ethiopian (Abyssinian) war . View, from an airplane, of mustard gas being spread over wide area from generators operated by Italian Forces on a river bank in Ethiopia. View from ground of the generators spewing the mustard gas. Numerous steel drums on ground near the generators. One is prominently marked with letter "M." An Italian soldier looks at the gas clouds from an upwind hide out.
World War II. U.S. Soldiers walk through a demolished Italian village. Other soldiers escort some Italian prisoners . They approach a pontoon bridge over which a U.S. military armored half-track vehicle is crossing toward them. The half-track passes by and the prisoners and their guards walk across the pontoon bridge.
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