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Title:FRANZ JOSEF : still portraits etc [Allocated Title]
Film Number:IWM 1034-01c
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Summary: Hungarian film showing a series of still portraits of the life of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary.
Description: The paintings or photographs follow in quick succession. First, Franz Josef as a young man, dissolving to him as an old man. His villa at Bad-Ischl. Wilhelm II of Germany with Franz Josef. Franz Josef with his grandson Otto. A symbolic 'Death' crosses out the name of Franz Ferdinand on the family tree on 29th (sic) June 1914. Franz Ferdinand's bloodstained uniform after the assassination.