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673 convicts get aboard ship La Martiniere to leave for Devil's Island in Saint Martin De-Re, France.

673 convicts leave for Devil's Island in Saint Martin De-Re, France. The convicts get aboard ship La Martiniere for their voyage to the Devil's Island. The group includes sixty murderers. Prisoners under the guns of guards are herded aboard the craft as families bid their last farewell. The ship La Martiniere departs from a harbor.

Date: 1931, March 2
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044395
President of France Gaston Doumergue greeted farewell by Tunis people and ruler in Tunis, Tunisia in North Africa.

President of France Gaston Doumergue in Tunis, Tunisia. Doumergue arrives by car. Officers escort him. He awards an officer. Ruler of Tunisia meets him. They both sit and watch the farewell greetings. Foot and mounted tribesmen hold their flags in military display. Horse warriors exhibit riding ability with rifles waving in their hands.

Date: 1931, April 23
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026606
Newsreel 'Daredevil Yankee Wins Sensational Motorbike Classic, Paris France'

Motorbike riders in a race in the Buffalo Stadium. Some of the motorcyle riders fall down on the dirt track route. Ray Tauser out-distances his rivals and wins the race. Close-up view of the American winner Tauser at the end of the motorcycle race.

Date: 1931, October 8
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040739
Pierre Laval is greeted by Paul Claudel and Jimmy Walker upon his arrival in New York.

French President of Council of Ministers of the Third French Republic Pierre Laval arrives in New York. French ocean liner SS Ile de France underway at sea. Pierre Laval disembarks from SS Ile de France with his daughter Mlle Josette. Laval is greeted by representatives of U.S. State Department, city officials and French Ambassador to the United States Paul Claudel. A tug sprays water in New York Harbor. The party boards the tug Macom and is landed at the battery and escorted up lower Broadway to City Hall where Mayor Jimmy Walker welcomes the diplomats on behalf of the metropolis.

Date: 1931, October 22
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075517
Construction workers rush completion of grand replicas for the Paris Colonial Exposition

View of the grand replica of the Cambodian temple Angkor Wat, in the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern outskirts of Paris, France. A pair of replica Khmer Temple Guardian Lion statues. A construction worker balance on a tall ladder above scaffolding. . Laborers build scaffolding. A grand replica of a mosque and its minaret. Workers build scaffolding above Paris.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078523
Villagers sing and dance during the inauguration of the Monument aux Bigoudens in Pont l'Abbe, Brittany

Festivities during the Inauguration of "Monument aux Bigoudens" in Pont l'Abbe, Bretagne (Brittany) France. Large crowd of children and adults in traditional Breton costume. People hold flags. They proceed down a town street toward the waterfront. There, on a large wharf, a sailing vessel is docked (no sails visible) and groups of men view the festivities from its masts and rigging. Children dance in a circle. Women in Breton costume are seen wearing a variety of tall lace coifs. Couples dance inside a circle as people watch. Musicians play instruments called: Biniou Coz and Bombarde. Spectators applaud. Emile Cueff, the local Bard, and his wife, sing a duet. Their daughter, Annick, stands between them, holding their hands.

Date: 1931, September 7
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: Breton
Clip: 65675031150