An Italian Navy Captain standing with a civilian and a colonel of the Italian Alpini (probably Colonnello Fossini Camossi, commander of the Italian Corpo di spedizione italiano in Estremo Oriente, that came to Vladivostok October 17, 1918, on its way to Manchuria, to guard the Tran-Siberian railway). The Navy Captain takes a paper from his coat and discusses contents with the Colonel. Brief view of a squad of Italian soldiers as they present arms, order arms, and assume parade rest, while standing on the sidewalk.
Japanese troops in Vladivostok, during Russian Civil War and World War 1. Opening scene shows Japanese soldiers in a bayonet sparring exercise using wooden rifles and Samurai style protective gear. They engage each other in pairs. Next scene shows Japanese soldiers in front of railroad cars serving as their housing. Some of them are cooking food. View along the rail platform where many Japanese soldiers are walking about. A Japanese soldier is seen inside on of the boxcars, smoking a cigar. Several others are seen inside their boxcar home, where they have a stove to heat it. A soldier stands guard atop war material stacked in low open rail cars. Views of vast rail yards filled with train loads of supplies of all kinds. Smoke issuing from steam locomotives in the distance. Another view of boxcars used as "barracks" for troops. Camera pans over the rail yards.
Nations mobilizing for World War 1 (The Great War).from 1914 through 1917-18. Civilians in a Slavic country react to information fastened on a large circular post. Closeup of British Mark II tanks moving near the camera, followed by view of British Whippet tank in front of army trucks. Uniformed, armed, German troops assembling in a town square. German General Paul von Hindenburg leading members of his staff and a diplomat, on inspection of troops. A Russian officer on horseback with troops assembled in a city park. Unusual grouping of Military officers from Germany (wearing Picklehaube helmets); France; and Russia (including a Cossack), gathered in front of a Russian Orthodox Church (presumably somewhere in Russia) prior to World War 1. Anachronistic view of middle-aged Winston Churchill giving an address, before numerous microphones. U.S. Marines hurrying along a waterfront pier, past a variety of boats docked in a city marina. American soldiers looking at a U.S. Connecticut-class battleship docked at a pier, displaying a large American flag, during World War 1. Camera pans across the pier. Crew members seen on Japanese battleship, Settsu. Japanese troops disembarking from a transport ship covered with ice.
Czech Legion troops in Vladivostok Siberia, during Russian Civil War and World War I. Opening scene shows a damaged railroad boxcar tilted on its side at a rail yard. Its wheels are broken. Snow and scrap materials have been piled beside it (likely to keep it from collapsing). Czech Legion soldiers appear to be using it as shelter. Change of scene shows American and Czech soldiers at a headquarters where the entrance is flanked by the American and Czech flags. Two women are speaking with the soldiers at the gateway. Closeup of the two women posing with two Czech soldiers and several Americans. Closeup of four American soldiers posing with two Czech Legionnaires, (one all in furs). Czech soldiers offloading supplies from railroad freight cars. Closeup of large boxes labeled with red crosses. Czech military medics loading the Red Cross supplies and blankets onto horse drawn wagons. View from fast moving train of snowy landscape outside the window. white smoke and steam from locomotive (unseen) passes the window. View of a train moving through snow covered landscape.
Allied powers intervention in Siberia during World War I. Czech Legion soldiers assembled in front of a building in Vladivostok. They march past a city gate. Snow on the roads. They stand in formation, for inspection, with their officers in front.
The October, 1917 revolution in Russia, during World War 1. Opening scene shows an explosion at the base of a tall column topped by a winged figure with outstretched arms. The column and statue teeter and then fall in a crash to the ground. Within the same scenes another similar collumn stands, but any statue it contained is gone. Next, a Bolshevik rioter is seen on a ladder, prying a large bas relief statue of Romanov double eagle from face of a building. It falls and breaks into many pieces on the ground.