American Army Major General James G. Harbord, Head of a U.S. post-war Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, together with members of his staff, mingle with Turkish authorities, as they all come out of the Town Hall building in Kharput (Elazig) Turkey.
A Turkish marching band leads a parade of Turkish soldiers marching to honor visiting members of the American Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia (unseen) in 1919. The area is arid and dusty. Behind the band, a contingent of infantry is led by an officer on horseback. Behind them are mounted officers leading mounted cavalry. Sequence shifts to sweeping view of hilly and mountainous terrain. (Local elevation at the town of Sivas, in the valley, is over 4 thousand feet.)
Members of the U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, stroll about grounds where tents are set up at a reception and party for them at Erzurum, Turkey. Women are seen seated on the ground near a large tent. Turkish soldiers of the 14th Corps assemble on bleachers near a space set out for a football (soccer) match. Players seen running on the pitch. Two wrestlers demonstrate their skills. A Lazi Dancer from the Trabzon district dances, accompanied by Turkish muscians. A group of dancers performs.
Camera pans shoreline in vicinity of Trebizond (Trabzon), Turkey, on the Black Sea. Views are from the Ocean Liner, United States Army transport, USAT Martha Washington, as it carries passengers (unseen) westward, including members of the American Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia. Next, are shown scenes as the Martha Washington traverses the Bosphorus Strait, at its narrowest point, where the "Fortress of Europe" aka "Rumeli Castle" or "Fortress Rumeli Hisari" is seen on the so-called European shore.
View of a beet Kolkhoz (a collective farm) near Kiev in Russia. Farmers at work. Beet is processed into Sugar. Russian women in a farm. Cotton is picked and unloaded at Commune of Paris cotton Kolkhoz, located in Armenia. Rice is threshed and stacked in North Star Kolkhoz in Turkestan.
Frozen bodies of numerous dead Turkish soldiers line a mountain road in Sarikamish. They fell victim to the opposing Russian Forces and the severe cold weather, during the World War 1, Caucasus Campaign Battle of Sarikamish (part of Russian Armenia at that time).