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French soldiers prepare an observation balloon for flight and launch it during World War I.

French soldiers unroll the fabric of an observation balloon in a clearing in a wood, during World War 1. They stretch it out flat in all directions. Scene shifts to a soldier sitting in a depot surrounded by stacks of compressed gas cylinders. He connects a cylinder to a fabric duct directing gas to the balloon. Soldiers monitor and adjust the balloon fabric as it expands. The next scene shows many soldiers surrounding the balloon as it expands to almost full size. They hold tether lines to keep the balloon from escaping, as they walk it to a launching location. Next sequence shows the balloon rising with observers in two separate gondolas suspended below the gas bag. View from one of the gondolas, looking toward the ground. (WWI. WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027329
French army uses observer in a balloon to obtain information about the enemy in World War I

View from above of a French military officer observer in the gondola of a tethered balloon. French soldiers on the ground control a reel of telephone wire connecting to the observer, aloft. Scene shifts to the observer, again, who bends over a chart of the area On the ground, French officers communicate by phone to the observer and make notes about his observations.

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027330
French defenses against enemy aircraft in World War I.

French troops in trenches on lookout for enemy aircraft. They fire an elevated machine gun (Mitrailleuse) mounted on a fixed pedestal, at an ememy airplane. View of an antiaircraft machine gun hidden in a deep hole. Observation balloon being lowered to a landing site with assistance of many French troops on the ground. Basket carrying observers is seen. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027331
French observer in balloon parachutes to escape approaching German aircraft (not seen).

A French observation balloon aloft high in the sky near the front during World War 1. Suddenly the observer bails out of the gondola and parachutes to earth (presumably due to threat from German aircraft, that is not seen in the sequence). (WWI. WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027332
French Caproni bomber prepares and departs on a mission during World War I.

Crew members climb aboard a Caproni bomber parked on an airfield in France, during World War 1. One of them slides a slender bomb into a holder in front of the plane. Brief view from rear engine looking forward to crew in their seats. Crew placing bombs into holders. Right engine being started. The bomber taxiing out for takeoff. Views from cockpit of takeoff and in flight. View from the air of military airfield and barracks below. View from the bomber of a French Nieuport 17 approaching. (WWI; WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027333
Aerial dogfight during World War I over the skies of France

Aerial dogfight over the skies of France. View from pilot seat as gunner with machine gun fires on a German aircraft. Enemy German plane falling toward the ground. Crashed plane wreckage on the ground, surrounded by French forces.

Location: France
Date: 1918
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027334
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