KARL VISITS BULGARIA AND TURKEY [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: KARL VISITS BULGARIA AND TURKEY [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1034-3
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: Hungarian film on the state visits of Emperor Karl to Bulgaria and Turkey, early 1917.
  • Description: Crown Prince Boris and Archduke Cyril wait to meet Karl's train at Sofia station. Karl and Empress Zita arrive. In the centre of Sofia Karl meets King Ferdinand, and they drive by coach through the crowds and parades to the palace, where Karl is introduced to a number of military commanders. Karl watches from his balcony as the parade goes by. Zita tours a hospital in Sofia, talking to convalescent patients. Karl meanwhile talks with leading military and civilian figures in Sofia. He is taken by King Ferdinand and Crown Prince Boris to a parade ground where he meets more soldiers, and watches another marchpast before leaving. In Constantinople Sultan Mohammed V waits for Karl and Zita's train to arrive. When it does there is, again, a formal meeting, and Karl and the Sultan get into one carriage along with Enver Pasha, the War Minister. The procession of coaches drives through the streets with a full parade escort, and arrives at the Merassim Kiosk (the summer palace). Later, Karl reviews a contingent of Austro-Hungarian troops just outside Constantinople, and then Karl and Zita walk through the parade square. They survey the Bosphoros, and get into the state barge. The film ends abruptly.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 1034-3)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: Austria-Hungary
  • Production Details:
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Boris III, King of Bulgaria (person) Cyril, Archduke of Bulgaria (person) Karl I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary (person) Zita, Empress of Austria-Hungary (person) Ferdinand I, Tsar of Bulgaria (person) Mohammed V, Sultan of Turkey (person) Enver, Pasha Ismail (person) Bulgarian Army (regiment/service) Austro-Hungarian Army (regiment/service) Ottoman Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: delegations, Austro-Hungarian international - state (object name) transport, Austro-Hungarian civilian - rail (object name) buildings, Bulgarian - commercial: railway station (object name) buildings, Bulgarian - institutional: palace (object name) buildings, Turkish - commercial: railway station (object name) buildings, Turkish - institutional: palace (object name) buildings, Bulgarian - institutional: hospital (object name) medical, Bulgarian military - hospital (object name) ceremonies, Bulgarian - display (object name) 31/3(497.2) (event) 31/3(560) (event) Bulgaria & Sofia (geography) Turkey & Constantinople (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: Hungarian
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 966 ft; Running time: 16 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Soundtrack: the soundtrack to this film consists of military music, and was presumably added by the BBC for its own purposes Technical: notes that the three reels of IWM 1034 are numbered as reels 1, 3 and 4. There is no reel 2
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 1034-3

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