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French General Jacques Le Clerc, Commander of French Forces in Indochina, visits a French base and reviews troops.

General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Commander of French forces in Indochina, arrives by airplane and is greeted at military air base. He reviews troops arrayed in formation and converses with French Naval officers.

Date: 1947
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043777
French General, Philippe Leclerc consulting with staff in the Montparnasse, Paris, train station,during World War II

Two civilians and two soldiers, are standing on the sidewalk in front of the train station at Montparnasse, Paris (Gare de Montparnasse) during World War 2. A remnant of former German occupation is a sign (in German) indicating it is for the German Army and contains the office of the train station guard officer. The French tricolor is displayed on the front of the building. Through the large glass window of the station, several men are seen huddled around a table inside. Camera moves inside, showing General Philippe Leclerc commander of the Free French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division Blindée,2e DB, aka La Division Leclerc). He is reviewing tactical maps with officers of his staff. After a glimpse of a train on a track behind them, the camera returns to Leclerc and his officers, and then pans upward to the train station clock reading 12:47.

Date: 1944, August 25
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043990
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers install Bailey bridges in France during World War II.

A U.S. Army jeep crosses a Bailey Bridge in France during World War II. Army engineers are still working around the bridge. The jeep passes a bulldozer and a dump truck at the site. Wrecked wooden building in the background. Scene shifts to another Bailey Bridge across a canal. A tractor pulling a construction crane and a truck crosses the bridge, followed by dump truck. Several barges are in the canal, including one with a white star identifying it as an American army barge. Scene changes to the site of a bombed out bridge, where Army Engineers are at work. A damaged cathedral dominates the opposite shore. Camera pans to left where a huge steel truss bridge is seen high overhead. Further left, is the Bailey Bridge, shown earlier, across the canal. Closer view of the Bailey Bridge with construction moving across it. Change of scene shows French General Charles de Gaulle and U.S. Major General Leonard Gerow leaving a building, accompanied by a surrendered German General and followed by some American and French soldiers. After posing for the camera, they turn around and all reenter the building.

Date: 1944, August 23
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043994
A marquis carries wounded patriots on a stretcher and 35th Infantry Division troops move on streets in Besancon, France.

United States 35th Division troops in Besancon, France. A board over a road reads 'Commissioner De Police'. French civilians stand outside the police headquarters. A marquis carries wounded patriots on a stretcher. United States 35th Infantry Division troops with tanks and equipment move on the streets. French civilians wave at U.S. soldiers. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, September 8
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044006
Vietnamese people in rural areas under French Colonial occupation working for the Indochinese Society of Rubber Plantations, formed in 1935

Vietnam under French occupation and working for the Indochinese Society of Rubber Plantations. Rural family hut with straw roof and children sitting on the ground outside. Still image of a wood plank road. Vietnamese laborers carrying loading sacks of food onto a boat. Vietnamese families in hills and fording a stream. A woman with baby on her back is pulled up an embankment. The people assemble to camp and view the body of one of their dead comrades. Still image of baby and mother viewing body. View of the jungle with a flowing river. Rubber tree being tapped. A sign reads: SOCIÉTÉ INDOCHINOISE DE PLANTATIONS D’HÉVÉAS

Date: 1935
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044075
Display of various houses at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

The Museum of Modern Art (1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States) in New York City. The exterior and the front of the museum. People enter the exhibition hall. 'Tomorrow's Small House' written on a board. A display of houses designed for better living. The names of architects in front of the houses that each designed: The Mario Corbett house; Philip Johnson House; Tech Associates; Vernon De Mars; Carl Koch House; Frank Lloyd Wright House and George Fred Keck House.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044129