Film begins with views from low flying airplane showing a domed building and government buildings in Vienna, Austria. Next, a city street with apartment buildings is seen. A slate is inserted reading: Isolated from the outside world by the blockade and financially ruined by the depreciation of the krone, one half of the population has been housed at the rate of four person per room." People are seen in a rural land settlement project. Slate explains: " The mission is aiding 22 land-settlements-cooperative building projects which are enabling groups of all classes to escape from the stricken city. 50% of the work is done by the settlers themselves. The average cost of one in the settlement shown is $170," Next, land settlers are seen at work constructing dwellings. Another slate reads: "With food prices beyond of even those who were formerly well-to-do, the land settlers raise the food which they cannot afford to buy." Men and women settlers are seen preparing plots of land to grow food. A settlement street is shown with people busy tending to the fronts of apartments.
Opening scene shows patients being cared for by nurses from an order of nuns (likely nuns of the Dominican order). Patients lying in beds in a modern hospital ward. Views of the attending nurses and several of the patients in their beds. Next scene shows Vienna Orthopedic Hospital in the Margareten (5th District of Vienna), established by medical Professor Hans Spitzy, devoted to treatment of crippled children and those suffering from tuberculosis affecting their bones. Boys who are patients in the hospital. Young boy with a tubercular elbow and tuberculosis of skin on the right breast. Two boys with tuberculosis of the bone and skin.
View from a wooden fishing boat with a mast (but not showing any sail) on a river in Russia. Camera focuses on a power driven tugboat pulling a barge at speed, in the middle of the river. The tugboat emits black smoke from its single funnel. It is a sidewheeler with a structure covering the upper part of the wheel. It also has several living quarter structures on its deck. It uses a long line to pull the barge, which contains several crewmen and is loaded with a mix of cargo. Momentary glimpse of men building a railroad bridge extended out over the water. A large building with a tall chimney and what appears to be a light house tower. Russian soldiers on a military railroad train.
A small contingent of Arab army soldiers, with shouldered arms, marches in formation, across the sand, toward the camera. An officer leads them on foot, and a Sheik rides alongside, astride a camel. Scene shifts to their camp, where uniformed soldiers mingle with other arabs in traditional dress. A color guard poses with the flag of the Arab Revolt. General activity is seen at the camp. Soldiers load camels with supplies, and head out of their mountainous campsite. They are followed by a large number of others, some walking and some on camels. Another scene shows wounded arriving by camel,at a camp, where they are placed on stretchers and attended by doctors and corpsmen.
Houses and trees in Turkey. Huge crowd of men gathered in a courtyard. A man reverently lays the flag of Turkey over a grave or other object of veneration. The crowd is gathered in front of a large palace with enormous portico several stories high above the throng. Many persons are on the portico.
British soldiers clean and repair Mark I (male) tanks in France. They clean and tighten bolts on the treads. They use a pole to clean the 6 pounder guns in the sponsons.
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