Smoke rises from the palace known as the Grand Palais in Paris, France, during the Liberation of France. People watch from a bridge with bicycles parked in the foreground. Huge smoke cloud billows out of the building which was set fire by the remaining German occupation force. View of the Seine River. People on the street with Red Cross vans parked in the background. Views of the burning Grand Palais from various places in Paris. (World War II period).
The Liberation of Paris during World War II. FFI (French Forces of the Interior) standing on the streets of Paris, France. An overturned burning truck on a road. A German military vehicle overturned on the street in front of La Samaritaine department store. An abandoned Allied tank on a street. French civilians and FFI men look at burning vehicles. Men ride bicycles on a deserted street. Brief view from a moving car of smoke coming from the Grand Palais which was set on fire by the Germans. A crowd stands next to burned German vehicles.
French General Charles De Gaulle arrives for his speech in Paris, France during liberation of Paris. A French flag on Eiffel Tower. Smoke rises in a distance. Smoke rises from the shell hit in the distance. A French flag on a building. People gather outside Notre Dame de Paris. Military cars in procession. General Charles De Gaulle arrives by car. Crowds cheers on his arrival. German snipers open fire. Crowds in street scatter and take over. Crowds sit and hide themselves on the roadside. Military tanks moves on the street. A soldier is injured and carried on a stretcher. A doctor treats the soldier's leg wound. Smoke rises in the distance. Military tanks move along the roadside. Soldier watches the tank move from behind. Soldiers fire from behind the cars toward the moving tanks. (World War II period).
German prisoners in Paris, France during liberation of Paris in World War II. A board reads 'Paris'. Two military trucks loaded with German prisoners captured by French civilians moves along. Faces of prisoners in the trucks. The military trucks with the German prisoners move ahead. French civilians watch as the trucks move. Civilians cheer and applaud.
Paris, France under Nazi German occupation during World War II. An automatic hand camera being laced into a basket. Bottles being placed in the basket to conceal the camera. A lens sticks out of a side of the basket. A cameraman on a bicycle rides away. While riding the bicycle the cameraman pulls a string attached to a spring on the camera. Another cyclist alongside the cameraman.
Models wearing designer dresses in Paris, France. A few models wearing dresses designed by designers in Paris. One of the model's dress being adjusted. Another model wearing a designer dress. The models wearing the designer dresses walk in a row on a path displaying the dresses. The models posing in front of a building. A few models posing on the terrace of a building. A garden and fountains in the background. The models pose wearing the designer dresses and hats.