Messter-Woche: Italienischer Kriegsschauplatz (1916)

Production company
Messter Film GmbH (Berlin)
Source
Bundesarchiv
Category
Wochenschauen

Messter Week: Italian Theater of War

Archduke Josef of Austria on his way to the front; troops marching to the front, including medical unit with dog teams. Pioneers building a suspension bridge over a mountain gorge. Archduke Karl v. Austria inspecting troops and talking with mountain soldiers. Lutz battery crew on the Isonzo front; speech by the battery commander. Emperor Karl I of Austria visits the Edelweiss Corps and greets Red Cross nurses. Emperor Karl I at the stereoscopic binocular. Mountain troops move to their positions in the area of the Marmolata; Emperor Karl I. waving from an open car greeting passing Austrian troops.

Source: Bundesarchiv