Messter-Woche Nr. 3 (1914)

Messter Week No. 3 (1914)

1. Intertitle: Austria. A brigade of Austrian militia ready to march off to the front. Image: The militia brigade is seen, one brigade member doffs his cap twice for the camera; six officers, three of them wave into the camera (21 m.) 2. Intertitle: The German-Russian border crossing Chernyshevskoye-Kybartai after pursuit of the Russians. Image: German (?) soldiers ride over the border in horsedrawn carriages, a border sentry-box in the background; soldiers standing around; along the street many houses have been burned out. (24 m.) 3. Intertitle: Pictures of the western theatre of war. (1 m.) 4. Intertitle: One of the approx. 200-metre-long tunnels blown up by the French is rebuilt in an astonishingly short time by 800 men of our railway forces. Image: Hundreds of men digging with spades; train passes through the reconstructed tunnel. (27 m.)