March 1921 occupation of the Ruhr (Düsseldorf, Duisburg, and Ruhrort), with Allies occupying industrial areas to enforce German reparations payments after World War 1. A British soldier with a rifle polices a perimeter as local citizens watch in Germany. A wagon train of horse-drawn wagons, manned by soldiers from France or Belgium, moves along cobblestone street by a lake and assembles in a town square. A crowd of spectators is lined up at the edge of the square. British officers maneuver a British Mark IV tank into the square where French and British officers confer. Many children are seen watching at edge of the town square. An officer moves some of them back from the camera, as he walks by.
British Royal Guards march outside building in London. Two guards at attention flanking building entry. British civilian crowd lines up on the sidewalks. UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George, French Prime Minister Aristide Briand and other Allied officials leave the building during the 1921 London Conference on German Reparations, held in March and April of 1921. Hand drawn map shows German areas occupied by Allies after World War I. Written labels are added to it as the film continues. The labels include "Neutral Zone" line between Germany and France, "American Sector" called out along that line and showing the area near Dusseldorf "Occupied by Allied Troops" and at Essen the marking "Essen under range of French Guns." Next is seen a marking that says "Kiel, Hamburg, and Bremen dominated by British Fleet." The map is signed by illustrator "Bert Green".
View from across open fields of Church building surrounded by lower large buildings in a village, in France, during World war 1. Several rounds of artillery fire strike the church, raising smoke where they hit. (WWI; WW1)
A large group of French officers review French troops marching, approximately 20 abreast,on parade field in France, during World War 1. Officers salute the marching troops. There appear to be thousands more troops drawn up in formations in the distance, across the field. This is a very large assemblage of troops, perhaps Division size. (WWI; WW1)
Events early in World War I. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria gets out of the car and walks with military escorts in front of troop formation. French troops happily enter protected fortified area. Woven wooden supports for trench. French Colonial soldier smiles as he poses in trench with rifle. German Kaiser Wilhelm II leads procession in front of honor guard. Ladies are in attendance. German parade led by goose stepping military band. Russian cavalry and the mass of autos. German lancers. Sign posted in France, announcing general mobilization of Army and Navy. French street scene with notices being passed out among the population. French Legionnaires march in crowded street. British palace guards parade in London followed by British Horse Guards. Belgian refugees walking along a roadside and cattle pulling wagons loaded with refugee belongings.
Athletes walk along a rope at a height of 75 feet in New Jersey. Men walk along the rope with long poles. Crowd watches the show as one man is blindfolded to walk along the rope. In France, a former trapeze artist walks on his hands and covers six miles a day.
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