Austria's new President Dr Theodore Koerner takes oath of office and receives a pledge of support from parliament. President Koerner inspects a guard of honor. Austrian troops parade on street in Vienna
Procession of automobiles carrying officials, escorted by policemen on bicycles, on a road in Vienna, Austria. The automobiles traverse a cobblestone street that tunnels under a large steel structure.
Mobilization of soldiers at Matzleinsdorfer station in Vienna, Austria early in World War 1. Crowd walks to the station. Austrian soldiers walk to the station with baggage on their shoulder. New soldiers sit on a railroad train preparing to depart for war. Women stand on the platform. Civilians and officers walk on the platform. Austrian soldiers sit and talk. German language slates interspersed.
Military officers meet and pose in Vienna, Austria. General Harris, General Harries, British General Ewart and French General Dupont stand in uniform. They talk and pose. An African American soldier stands and talks to another soldier. An officer stands with other officers and soldiers at the garden in the premises of a building. They talk and pose. Among them is Colonel William Hayward, commander of the African American 369th Infantry, 93rd Division (15th New York National Guard; Old Fifteenth; or "Harlem Hellfighters").
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.
Communal kitchen in Vienna, Austria, in the years just after the end of World War 1, during mass food shortages and high inflation. People seated at table eating food. Women taking needlework to institute. It is their means of supplementing income after selling all their possessions. Often a year's pension is insufficient for a week's food for the 600 war victims; many of them gentlefolk of the old aristocracy receive weekly allotments of food. People queue at table to receive food from soup kitchen operated by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). On screen slate appeals for help.