French aviation officers practice tracking moving targets through skeet shooting during World War 1. Assistants launch targets into the air and the shooters fire at them. Scene shifts to the officers firing machine guns from airplane-type gun ring installations. (WWI. WW1)
French signalman raises large signal ball aloft on a semaphore tower at an airfield in France, during World War 1. One signal ball is already displayed on the tower, along with a flag and a weather vane. (WWI. WW1)
View from inside a hangar as a team of ground crewmen push an airplane outside, where a grass field is seen, filled with Nieuport airplanes. One taxis out for takeoff.
French soldiers unroll the fabric of an observation balloon in a clearing in a wood, during World War 1. They stretch it out flat in all directions. Scene shifts to a soldier sitting in a depot surrounded by stacks of compressed gas cylinders. He connects a cylinder to a fabric duct directing gas to the balloon. Soldiers monitor and adjust the balloon fabric as it expands. The next scene shows many soldiers surrounding the balloon as it expands to almost full size. They hold tether lines to keep the balloon from escaping, as they walk it to a launching location. Next sequence shows the balloon rising with observers in two separate gondolas suspended below the gas bag. View from one of the gondolas, looking toward the ground. (WWI. WW1)
View from above of a French military officer observer in the gondola of a tethered balloon. French soldiers on the ground control a reel of telephone wire connecting to the observer, aloft. Scene shifts to the observer, again, who bends over a chart of the area On the ground, French officers communicate by phone to the observer and make notes about his observations.
French troops in trenches on lookout for enemy aircraft. They fire an elevated machine gun (Mitrailleuse) mounted on a fixed pedestal, at an ememy airplane. View of an antiaircraft machine gun hidden in a deep hole. Observation balloon being lowered to a landing site with assistance of many French troops on the ground. Basket carrying observers is seen. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
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