The Marial Congress in Lyons, France. French crowd walks with umbrellas in hand. Children and women take part in the procession. Decorative floats on the street. The procession advances over a bridge. Priests perform religious rites during the ceremony. Large crowd gather in front of the Cathedral.
French battleship Richelieu launched in Brest, France. French Marine minister Cesar Campinchi arrives with other officials for the inauguration of the French battleship Richelieu. Sailors on deck of the ship. Sailors stand in formation on deck. Madame Mons, the wife of one of the workers in the arsenal who took part in the construction of the boat, cuts the ribbon and launches the battle ship. Officials look as the battleship leaves the dock. Sailors on rail of the ship. Cesar Campinchi takes a protective mask while welding. Other officials stand around him.
A mock air raid and defensive precautions in Paris, France. Dramatization : Gas detector crews on motorcycles speed to bombed areas to warn citizens and aid the wounded. Men treat the injured. Men carry a stretcher. They put injured on stretcher. Men carry the injured on stretcher.
Officials meet in Paris, France during World War II. The officials standing outside a building. They shake hands and enter the building. British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax arrives to confer with French Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Etienne Bonnet. Officials walking inside the building. They meet to discuss the anti-axis treaty.
An aircraft manufacturing factory in Bouguenais, France. Interior of the factory. Men working on the production of the airplanes. French Minister of Air Guy La Chambre visits the factory and inspects the production process. He watches an airplane demonstration. An airplane in flight overhead.
Ships, steamers, submarines and other vessels underway at harbor, Le Havre in France. Ocean liner "Bretagne" approaches the ship docking area. Towing boats move beside the steamer. Former prisoners of the Devil's Island French prison disembark from the ocean liner. Workers inside a control room at a railway station. Former prisoners arrive at the station carrying their belongings. They board the train. People bid farewell as the train leaves the station.