Refine Your Search

Pas-de-Calais France 1936 stock footage and images

- Showing 13 to 18 of 6953 results
Crowds gathered at the 1936 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia

Crowds of delegates and citizens gathered in Philadelphia for the closing, nomination acceptance speech of the Democratic National Convention during the 1936 presidential campaign. Spotlights sweep across the gathered crowd listening to the speakers including United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for his second term. President Roosevelt accepts his nomination at Franklin Field (South 33rd and Spruce Streets Philadelphia, PA 19104).

Date: 1936, June 27
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036467
Dover and Calais after various attacks by Germany in World War II.

Dover, United Kingdom: The town of Dover in Kent. Men, women and children move to underground shelters. Women play cards and knit. German artillery fired. British soldiers amid ruins. Scene changes to Calais, France: Calais under the liberating Canadian soldiers. Man cleans a room. Destroyed bridges. Canadian soldiers evacuate French civilians across the Calais Canal. Men, women, children, and wounded civilians helped across the canal by soldiers. Wounded lifted into military ambulances. A woman holds her wounded child. Allied airplanes drop bombs over enemy territory. Explosion and smoke due to bombardment. British and Canadian Army soldiers examine German artillery and coastal guns. A white flag put up at a surrendered German post.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020656
U.S. 8th Air Force B-24 aircraft drop bombs on enemy beach defenses in Calais, France during World War II.

U.S. 8th Air Force air attacks against France during World War II. Aerial view of U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft in formation flight. A gunner mans a gun. On June 5, 1944 a B-24 airccraft releases bombs over Calais. The bombs fall in the English Channel. B-24 aircraft drop bombs to strafe enemy beach defenses on the coast of Calais. Billows of smoke rises after the bombs detonate. A convoy of Allied ships underway in the English Channel.

Date: 1944, June 19
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077900
Allied troops inspect French civilians for spy in Calais, Southern France during Operation Dragoon (WW2)

Allied Invasion of Calais, France during Operation Dragoon of World War II on 21 August 1944. At Calais, French civilians gather people accused of collaborating for the Germans and walk them through streets. A woman suspected to be a German collaborator. French town was liberated. Liberated civilians cheer and wave at the arrival of the soldiers loaded in trucks.

Date: 1944, August 21
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072833
French aviator Louis Blériot flies his first monoplane aircraft in Calais, France, 20 years after his record Channel crossing

History of famous airplanes and aviators. French aviator Louis Blériot in Calais, France. The pioneer inventor of aircraft is greeted warmly by friends prior to taking off in his first monoplane aircraft, the Blériot XI, in which he was the first to cross the English Channel nearly 20 years earlier. Bleriot gets into the cockpit. The tail structure of the airplane. A flag of France on the tail. 'L Bleriot' written on the tail section. The aircraft taxis across a field past a parked French twin-engined Farman Goliath F.60 biplane airliner. The Blériot XI aircraft takes off. A large crowd of spectators watches the aircraft. The next scene shows a large Blériot Bl-127 ( powered by 2 Hispano-Suiza 12Hb, 550 hp, V-12 engines). As it taxis toward the camera, Its "V" configured engines are exposed and clearly visible. A group of spectators is gathered as the pilot and Louis Blériot emerge from a hatch in the airplane. An official greets M. Blériot.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070308
American 111th Infantry Regiment arriving in Calais, France during World War I.

American Expeditionary Forces troops of the 111th Infantry Regiment, debark from a transport ship (with identification E.8106, painted on its superstructure) at Calais, France, during World War 1. They form into units and march along the pier, next to a line of trains marked with red crosses. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029206