Two French men walk at gates of Joseph Francois Deibler's house, France's official executioner. The two French men go inside the gates. Two men walk on walkway at side of a building. Cars and people walk past the gates of Deibler's house.
Several people seated in a nightclub in Paris France. Bottles of alcoholic beverages are kept on the tables. American fan dancer, Joan Warner, appears to run from the room, naked. Joan Warner, sitting in her dressing room, receives a summons from French authorities. She sorts through a number of newspaper clippings about herself. She comes down the steps of Court Building accompanied by her lawyer and reporters. Judges of French 10th Correctional Chamber. Joan Warner emerges from offices of the Commissariat de Police, holding a slip of paper. Joan Warner and another woman enter a taxicab at a French train station, and drive away.
Between World War 1 and World War 2, training for French citizens for possible air raids in Paris, France. Members of a volunteer group supported by the government are trained for action against an air raid menace. The volunteers wear gas masks and gas-impregnated clothing and come out of air raid shelters. They get in a jeep and ride through the city streets. They escort civilians into gas-proof shelters. Dramatize film showswhat destruction might look like during an air raid. Dramatization: Aircraft shell the city. Bombs explode, fire in the city and buildings get damaged. Actual footage of practice drills in Paris where 'Victims' of the air raid are removed from the streets and are carried to the shelters.
X rays being taken in Paris, France. A man stands behind an X ray machine and a young woman or possibly a nurse operates a movie camera focused at the machine. X-ray films of different body parts. The man stands behind the machine as the girl uses the camera to take X rays. The man drinks from a cup and the moving Xray shows the passage of liquid into the man's body.
French midget aircraft takes off from Orly Airport in Paris, France. The pilot pushes out French midget aircraft from hangar at Orly Airport. The pilot starts engine on the midget aircraft. The aircraft takes off from the field. Other French aircraft models in the background. The aircraft in flight over grasslands. The aircraft lands. The hangar in the background.
Soldiers stand near a tank at a field in Saint Quentin, France. Trees in the field. Soldiers pass on the field along with carts. An observation balloon in the sky. Soldiers in a vehicle hold the control of the balloon. Wrecked houses in the field. Soldiers fire artillery. They load and fire the guns. Smoke arises due to the firing. Soldiers watch the balloon through binoculars.