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Renault French FT 17 tanks used for demolition after World War I.

Opening scene shows two French Renault FT 17 tanks descending a steep embankment from a path where several pedestrials pass in the background. The tanks then, ford a stream and climb a very steep embankment from the stream. In the background, two derricks are seen on a pier extending partway into the stream. The tanks reach a tree-lined road at the top of the embankment. Change of scene shows one tank running over the remains of a partially destroyed building, as two men watch from closeby. Next, the demolition site is seen from an adjacent street, where passersby watch the tank from the sidewalk. Scenes of the tank in the rubble

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027567
French and German forces in action, including split screen views of French and German troops, during World War I

Views of World War 1 French Army and German Army forces in somewhat parallel activities; some presented in split screen. German soldiers on horses with guns in the field. French Cavalry on the move and German Artillery being moved by horses along a road. French troops attacking in battlefield. French and German artillery fire. French officers talk amongst themselves outside a telegraph station set up in a closed wagon in the field. Officers sit in the telegraph station. An aircraft being flown by aviation pioneer Hubert Latham, and another by French Lieutenant Rene Jost. French Lancers on horseback. People on the roadway.

Date: 1917
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027572
French soldiers respond to an alarm on the Western Front during World War I

French troops on the Western front in World War 1, hear an alarm, and leave their barricaded emplacement to respond. They move through an area of war damaged buildings and pass through a doorway on one of the buildings. (WWI; WW1)

Date: 1915
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028062
Launch of the French Cruiser, "Languedoc," replacing the "Leon Cambetta," during World War I

Launching of the new French Cruiser, "Languedoc," to replace the "Leon Cambetta," torpedoed during World War 1, by the Austrian submarine U-5, on April 26, 1915, in the Adriatic Sea. Shipyard workers in unison, knock out supports holding the new ship in place, and she slides down the ways into the water. (WWI; WW1)

Date: 1915
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028065
Holt Artillery Tractors Tow field guns during First World War

Two Holt Artillery Tractors Tow guns past watching troops during World War I. British and French troops are visible (some casually lying on the ground in front of the camera). Several soldiers on horseback are seen and many canvas-covered troop trucks, in the background. A white tent is pitched on the other side of the path. A motorized ambulance is in the background.

Date: 1915
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028069
French soldiers constructing a trench and dugout during World War I

French soldiers building a wooden-reinforced trench during World War I. Wooden planks stretched across the trench opening. Boards being handed down to a worker in the trench who appears to pass them toward a tunnel opening. Buckets handed back and forth from the trench diggers to the soldiers outside the trench. French officers supervise the work.

Date: 1915
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028071