President Masaryk's train arrives at President Wilson Railway Station in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Bands play National Anthem at his arrival. Large crowd gathers at the station. Clement Simon French and representative of Great Britain, Colonel Montgomery Cunningham among the dignitaries present. Alice, Olga Masaryk and Poet Machar (whom Vienna called a traitor) ride in the royal carriage at a procession. Thousands of people cheer and celebrate. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Ford Biplanes at an airfield in United States. Planes take off and land. Men on airfield.
Exteriors of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. People in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles.
Views of the gardens at the Palace of Versailles in Versailles France. Lined up trees along a path in the gardens. Few soldiers tour the gardens. Water pools at the gardens. People roam in the gardens.
Film starts showing and American soldier atop a hill in France during World War I. He is hatless and looking through a periscopic telescope mounted on a tripod. Next, American troops are seen preparing defensive positions at the base of a slope. They are using picks and shovels. Not far behind them, in the background are buildings of a French village. Closeup of soldiers in their entrenchment. One wears a headset and kneels by a field communications device. A lieutenant, smoking a pipe, comes to him with a log book and hands him a paper dispatch to transmit. The soldier transmits the message using a telegrapher's key. The next scene shows two soldiers at another communications site, near a tall slender transmission pole, rigged up with guy wires.
Opening scene shows American troops in the far distance, moving across open terrain in France during World War I. Some are on a road closer to the camera position. Next, an American unit, with horses and wagons, is seen pausing to reorganize its gear and supplies. View, again, of the American troops in the far distance, with smoke rising from a shell strike near them. More views of shells striking and white smoke spreading low across the terrain. Troops on horeseback and in wagons, coming from the shelled area along the road below the camera position. Multiple shell bursts striking closer to the camera. Suddenly, American troops with their wagons begin to move the opposite direction along the road (towards the area being shelled). One shell strikes right on the road, and other nearby. Scene shifts to group of American soldiers firing a Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.
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