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Royalty ride during the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
Events during the Paris Peace Conference. Royalty ride in a procession is seen passing through the Arc de Triomphe. Crowd of people gathered to see the procession at the Champs -Elysees Avenue. Delegates arriving in horse carts.
Scenes of early French aviators and aircraft. First woman flyer, Baroness De La Rouche, pioneer French aviatrix
Early historic aviation footage focusing on French aviation pioneers like Gabriel Voisin and Alberto Santos-Dumont. An early French float plane taking off and landing. Multiwing box-like aircraft. Two early French monoplanes. Early aircraft that set performance records. 1919 picture of Raymonde de Laroche, Baroness de la Rouche, world's first woman flyer. Additional scenes of historical French aircraft and a scene with American pilot Glenn Curtiss.
Film depicting some of the tragic human aftermath during and after World War I
A film looking at some of the tragic human costs of World War 1 ("The Great War"). Opening slates read, (in French) "What the war has left behind it." "9 million dead." Then, a vast battlefield cemetery is shown,filled with rough wooden crosses. Camera pans over parts of it. Another, better tended cemetery is seen with finer crosses. Then another battlefield graveyard, with freshly dug graves and rough markers is shown. Slate reads, "The sea, a vast tomb." Another slate reads, millions of crippled," followed by scenes of Allied soldiers and medics, carrying their gear, across a barren battlefield. One rough cross is seen.In next scene it is clear they are scouring the battlefield for wounded and dead. Stretcher bearers make their way cautiously across ditches and makeshift bridges as they retrieve the wounded. Two assist a walking wounded soldier with bandaged eyes. Wounded seen being brought into a sandbagged brick building serving as a hospital. A field ambulance also takes patients from the hospital. A convoy of field ambulances carry wounded from the battlefields. A two-stacker British hospital ship steaming at high speed away from a French port, headed for England. Wounded British war veterans being moved in wicker wheel chairs outside a substantial building. Uniformed attendant picks one up bodily and places him into another wicker wheel chair that allows his legs to be outstretched. The attendant covers him with a blanket. Next, that veteran is seen, conversing with a men, in an outdoor area, where other wheel-chair bound veterans are enjoying small flower gardens and socializing in the sunshine. A white-coated caregiver assists a stooped veteran who takes many small steps to walk. Next is seen the famous 1919 painting by John Singer Sargeant, of blinded soldiers on the battlefield, titled, "Gassed." (It is now in the British Imperial War Museum.) Slate reads "They'll never see again," and several blind veterans are seen in dark glasses walking outdoors in the company of others. Blind veterans, injured in gas attacks, are seen making baskets by hand.
President Wilson, Italian PM Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George at Paris Peace Conference.
The interior of building shows dignitaries in Paris Peace Conference of 1919. United States President Wilson, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George are seated at a long table. President Woodrow Wilson, Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando, Prime Minister Clemenceau, and Prime Minister David Lloyd George step outdoors. The four leaders pose outside the building.
President Woodrow Wilson visiting the cathedral in Reims, France during his visit to France for the Paris Peace Conference.
United States President Woodrow Wilson visits Notre Dame de Reims (Pl. du Cardinal Luçon, 51100 Reims, France) in Reims (Rheims), France. Cardinal Luzon explains something to the President. The President observes the building of the cathedral. He is accompanied by other French officials.
View of a Great Palace exteriors, Champs Elysees and Arc De Triomphe in Paris, France.
Exteriors of the Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées building (3 Av. du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris, France) in Paris, France. Pedestrians and vehicular traffic outside the buildings. A statue of a French soldier and a woman on a pedestal outside the north exterior of the Grand Palais. A cannon is positioned on either side of the monument. Visiting American soldiers and sailors look at the statue. Vehicular traffic including pre 1920's automobiles and some horse carts on Champs Elysees, as seen from camera point of view near ground level, amid traffic. A woman and girl cross the road. Arc De Triomphe in the background. The scene changes to exterior view of the Petit Palais building (Av. Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris, France) in Paris, with cars, horse carts, and pedestrians walking nearby. In the background, a different statue of what appears to be a soldier and a woman, again flanked by cannons on either side, is seen outside the Petit Palais. Next scene is a closer view of the Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France), as seen from middle of the Champs Elysees, amid early automobile and car traffic.