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French Cavalry Unit maneuvers in Morocco. Tanks and motorcycles in formation. Colonel orders unit to mount up and proceed

French motorized cavalry unit with tanks and motorcycles in formation, in Morocco. The commanding officer, a French Colonel, orders the unit to mount up and move out. Tank crews and motorcyclists take up their operating positions. Column of tanks and motorcycles moves beside what appear to be ancient ruins.

Location: Morocco North Africa
Date: 1952
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024288
French soldier talks with Moroccans in tent encampment.

French soldier talking with Moroccans in a tent encampment. He talks with an old man and his sons. Slate states that the old father puts his family under the protection of the winners. Moroccan women climb into an open truck. Nearby stand several French Moroccan troops, wearing the fez, and armed with rifles and bayonets. The women are covered from head to toe. Tents on the ground. Houses in background. Local men stand around tents. A soldier stands with a gun on a hill and look towards the tents.

Location: Morocco North Africa
Date: 1925
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024289
French and Spanish troops land near Rif city of Alhucemas. General Saro directs operations. Battle scenes from trenches.

Morocco during the Rif War or Second Moroccan War. Arrival and landing of troops reinforcing French and Spanish forces in the Rif city of Al Hoceima (Alhucemas) protected by the firing of French and Spanish naval warships. Beachhead scenes of landing craft, troops and supplies. General Saro directs the operation. Spanish troops in sandbagged position. General Billot and Colonel Freydenberg look through binoculars to observe progress of the battle. Soldiers fire from a trench located on top of a high hill. Enemy soldiers climb the hill amidst firing. A French officer walks behind a line of entrenched French and Moroccan soldiers and inspects them. A French officer looks through binoculars on the battlefield near Taunat, while his troops fire from trenches behind him. Troops seen at end of battle. Special credit is given to French aviator Mezerques for heroically firing into the Rif trenches. He is seen smoking a cigarette and smiling.

Location: Morocco North Africa
Date: 1925, September 8
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675024290
Mohammed Ben Aarafa is installed as the new sultan of Morocco by French colonial authorities

French colonial authorities install Mohammed Ben Aarafa as the new sultan of Morocco (a French protectorate). Moroccan policemen frisk arrested supporters for the growing Moroccan independence movement. Policemen take away an arrested Moroccan man. Moroccan Berber tribesmen converge together. Honor guards participate during the ceremony placing Ben Aarafa on the Alouite Throne. Moroccans salute to the new sultan Mohammad Ben Aarafa. General Augustin Guillaume, the French resident-general of Morocco, presents the felicitations of his government to the new sultan in the Dar al-Makhzen palace in Rabat, Morocco.

Location: Morocco North Africa
Date: 1953, August 21
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041645
French and Tunisian troops clash over Bizerte Naval base in Tunisia.

Aerial view of fleet of ships and port in Bizerte Naval base. Military jeep on road. Soldier stands at a gate.People in barrack hold rifles in hands. A procession by Tunis people. They show banners.

Location: Tunisia North Africa
Date: 1961, July
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034171
Aftermath of conflict when Tunisian forces blockaded and fired upon French troops at the Bizerte Naval Base.

Broad from high point overlooking Bizerte Naval Base and inlet canal. View from above of destroyed building and railroad tracks. Close-up of a destroyed building with concrete rubble scattered everywhere. A French mobile field gun tilted to its side with one wheel on the ground next to it. Two helicopters are parked in the background. Damage in downtown commercial district. A building riddled with bullet holes. Damaged steel store front covers. Armed French troops patrolling the streets. Several are seen climbing on the roof of a building. A French soldier standing near an M24 Chaffee light tank in a small park traffic circle. Tunisian men carry what appears to be a large bier containing a victim of the conflict. French troops, vehicles and equipment gathered on part of the Bizerte Base. French soldiers and local people gather around a man dispensing water to them from a huge tank on a truck. One man fills a large pail with water and carries it toward a gated building. .

Location: Bizerte Tunisia North Africa
Date: 1961
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034176
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