Conductor converses with concert master violinist onstage, before a performance. Musicians begin to play under the baton of the conductor. Musicians dressed formally. Instruments, music stands and music manuscripts clearly seen. Soloist Paul Wiggenstein plays the piano, with left hand only, on stage. Right sleeve of his jacket hangs limp at his side. Soloists play violins. Audience seated in concert hall. Wiggenstein and the conductor taking bows after the performance.
Journalists and photographers loitering in hope of seeing Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII, who abdicated). Group of reporters, photographers, newsreel cameramen and children, being kept under control by a friendly armed policemen, who has to make a photographer with camera and tripod move back a bit. A little girl is amused by this. A car arrives. The policemen politely refuses it entrance, and it turns to go back. A photographer peeps out of a small window. Cameramen run out of house. Cars parked in a village street. A villager with oxen pulled cart.
Heinrich Himmler toasts German Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein, his liaison officer on Hitler's personal staff, and Eva Braun's sister, Gretl, following the civil ceremony wedding of Fegelein and Braun in Salzburg at the Palace of Mirabell. The couple are greeted by other military officers. Gretl Braun Fegelein is presented flowers. As they are exiting the room the couple stops and talks to Martin Bormann. The couple gets into a car and drive away, bound for a wedding reception.
Following World War 1, U.S. Army African American soldiers posing in front of a fountain at an official building. At about 10 feet above the ground, there are many small carved elephants encircling the fountain. Group of American Army officers poses in the same place, including Colonel William Hayward, commander of the African American 369th Infantry, 93rd Division (also known as the 15th New York National Guard or Old Fifteenth or "Harlem Hellfighters." A bigger group of American officers poses in front of what looks like a memorial with bas relief carvings. They hold a long banner reading "The Stars and Stripes forever."
An exhibit of war art at the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna during World War II. A poster titled 'War and Art' advertising the exhibition in German. Exterior of the exhibition building with Axis flags. Sculptors of soldiers and Nazi Swastika banners at the entrance. Officers view the exhibition. Exhibits include paintings, pictures, sculptures and armors. Exhibits from countries like Slovakia, Romania, Spain and Finland. Japanese Samurai armor in case. Sculpture of a Samurai on a horse. Paintings depict war scenes, soldiers on horses and in boats. A painting of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Civilians view the exhibits.
Obsolete American trolley cars from New York used on Vienna street car lines. Trams on tracks. Men remove planks from the front. Notice on tram. Man hangs onto light on tram front. 'Southern Blvd' and 'Third Avenue Transit System' written on trams. A tram is towed. Trams move on tracks as men watch.