Scenes of the South Western region of the United States. A map shows Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Scenic sweeping wide views of Mountains, plains and canyons in the United States in lofty mountainous area. View of the Grand Canyon. Tourists visit ruins. Ruins of Aztec dwellings in the Chaco Canyon area. The Pueblos at Santa Fe. Native American Indian Navaho Indians weave rugs. Indian Men and cowboys on wheel carts and horses in a dry area. Women sow seeds in the farm. Cattle grazing and Sheep graze in a field. A copper mine.
Austrian troops on the Eastern Front during World War 1 battling Russian forces. During a lull in battle, they move cautiously among fallen soldiers, on the battlefield, seeking to help any still alive. Austro-Hungarian medics find and retrieve one wounded soldier on a stretcher.
Mobilization and deployment of the German Army from Berlin, Germany for World War I. The Bismarck Memorial in front of the Reichstag building. Cheering crowd in front of the building. Officers unload supplies from a cart. German officers hand over the supply packs to newly recruited soldiers. A band plays. Mobilized soldiers stand in formation. The soldiers march. Officers on horses review the troops.
A British politician, likely Lord Horatio Kitchener (British Secretary of State for War), passionately addresses the crowd in a recruitment rally in London during World War 1. A sign behind the man says " London Rec... Recruits Wanted...". A "Lord Kitchener Wants You" recruitment image. Men climb up on stage. Men move in line to report for mobilization. A man raises his book upon reporting for enlistment. Officials read papers. Military official takes a book away from the man's hand. Young men receive their uniforms after enlistment. Four divisions of enlisted soldiers are mobilized to the front in Europe. Soldiers embark on a ship sailing to the front. A ship full of soldiers leave the United Kingdom for Europe to fight.
Outbreak of World War I as a consequence of Archduke of Austria-Este Francis Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo. Troops gather in Germany on the bidding of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Soldiers leave Berlin. Soldiers of the Alexandria Regiment march. Family members bid farewell as new recruit soldiers board a railroad train and leave for a war front. Smiling soldiers. A huge crowd at a platform to bid farewell to the soldiers. The train carrying the soldiers pulls away.
Teams of horses transport German 21cm morsers (heavy siege morters) along a road leading toward the front during World War 1. Gunners walk along beside them. Battery of the mortars being set up in a field by some houses near Mechelen (Malines) Belgium. The gun crews load and fire their mortars. Supplies are brought by horse-drawn wagon. Officers, soldiers, and some medical corpsmen (with red crosses on their sleeves) stand nearby as the battery of mortars fires. . (Note: The church shown, beginning TC: 1:28 is reportedly St. Joseph's, of the St. Joseph-Coloma parish on the southern outskirts of Mechelen/Malines, a city midway between Brussels and Antwerp. The church survived the war and still stands in 2014, although it is also reportedly in a bad state of repair.)
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