The surrender of Ottoman forces at Scutari, April 21, 1913, in the first Balkan war. A Montenegrin military brass band (not playing) marches down the steep road from the Ottoman citadel, Rozafa castle. The Rozafa Castle is seen overlooking Scutari (Shkoder), Albania. Behind them are Crown Prince Danilo and Prince Peter of Montenegro. The princes are seen just ahead of a soldier carrying a black Montenegrin Royal flag. A slate refers to them receiving the sword of Essad Pasha Toptani. General Serdar (Count) Janko Vukotić, military Commander of the Montenegrin forces, is seen marching with other officers, behind an honor guard carrying the state flag of Montenegro. Several views of dead soldiers.
Slate states that Bulgaria's Black sea port of Varna is being shelled by Russian Battleships. However this is not noticeable in these scenes. Boats are tied up at the docks and men go about their activities, with no clear evidence of Russian battleships or shelling. There is a brief aerial view of a ship, next to a breakwater where a lighthouse stands. Smoke is rising from her stack. (World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Machine power in Canada and Germany in World War 2. Canadian Industry workers walk into a war production plant punching time cards as they enter. Men welding. Steel worker checking heat of hot steel with temperature-reading glasses. Workers in Canadian factory prepare machinery for war. 20th April 1939: Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany reviews German army in parade on his 50th birthday (Narrator incorrectly states the year as 1938, but Hitler's 50th birthday was in 1939 and these images are from the 1939 parade). Heavy breakthrough tanks roll by, followed by Army division assault tanks. Motorized troops march followed by Infantry and then parachute troops. Stuka Dive bombers fly overhead with Berlin Victory Column (Siegessäule) in the foreground. Hitler and others watch the flight.
British and Canadian preparations for World War II. Britain converts personal properties into State properties. Men and women work in factory. A banner with the phrase 'Go to it' coined by the Britisher Morrison. Workers construct buildings in Canada. White smoke comes out of factory. Workers at gun factory. Worker checks barrel alignment of a gun. Man checks firing capacity of gun. Workers at shipyard work on submarine. Steel plates used to lessen the weight. Trucks, tractors and ambulances made in factory. Testing and standardization of truck by National Research Council. They use X-Ray for testing of parts of machinery. A Canadian Pacific railroad train moves on tracks carrying train cars loaded with weapons and war supplies. Aircraft, trucks, tanks and ships as weapons of Canada. Industrial workers work in steel factories to make these machines.
Liner USS George Washington on the Atlantic Ocean after its departure from Hoboken, New Jersey, bound for the Paris Peace Conference after World War 1. One of the ship's officers looks through binoculars. Two ships in the background (one is likely the USS Pennsylvania BB-38 which accompanied the flotilla). President Woodrow Wilson looks through binoculars. Standing behind him is Rear Admiral Cary Grayson, who was also the President's physician, Two women talk to a man on ship. John W Davis looks through binoculars, a woman stands beside him. The woman looks through binoculars. Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State stands on ship wearing a hat and bowtie and looks around. French Ambassador Jean Aderian Antoine Jules Jusserand sits and talks with two women. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard University, special assistant to the Department of State, assigned to the American Commission to negotiate peace after World War 1. He is seen in this sequence, with members of his staff, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, from where they assessed postwar political conditions in Austria-Hungary and neighborhood countries, and made recommendations for the U.S. participants at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The sequence begins with staff members walking from the Hofburg (Hofburg, Michaelerkuppel 1010 Wien). It is January, and snow is on the ground. Professor Coolidge holds gloves in his left hand and warms his right hand inside his coat in Napoleonic manner, as he chats with others. Staff members are predominantly military officers and include both U.S. Army and Navy personnel.
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