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French soldiers "unfit for further service" leave Switzerland with luggage, sit on train and go home during World War 1.
French soldiers who are unfit for further military service are seen leaving Switzerland for home during World War I. French soldiers walk while one soldier holds flag. French soldiers carry luggage. French Army soldiers in a railroad train wave as it leaves the platform. Soldiers at the platform wave back to them.
Top skiers compete for the Lauberhorn trophy in Switzerland
Top skiers compete for the Lauberhorn trophy, a top European meet. Participants from France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland compete in the skiing competition. A slalom race and a downhill event ends with the Austrians taking the trophy.
1960 Winter Olympics athletes slalom skiing in Switzerland
Skiers practice alpine slalom skiing in Switzerland. One hundred top skiers from 14 countries prepare for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. Athlete skiing on heavy snow. A skier tackling 72 gates in a 200-foot drop on a savagely difficult slalom course. Spectators watch the slalom skiing. More athletes tackle gates on slalom course. An athlete slips on slalom course. Snow is falling as a skier glides down the slalom slope and hairpin turns.
Sesquicentennial celebration of Captain Cook's discovery of Hawaii
Sesquicentennial celebration of Captain Cook's discovery of Hawaii: (1778-1928) held in the Hawaiian Islands, August 15 to 21, 1928. Monmouth-class British armored cruiser underway en route to Hawaii. Royal Hawaiian flag draped on tripod of submerged tablet, marking the site of Cook's demise. (The inscription reads: "Near this spot Captain James Cook, R.N., was killed, Feb. 14, 1779.") Smoke seen rising from naval guns on the British cruiser, in Kealakekua Bay, off coast of Hawaii, firing 21-gun salute. Camera pans over to the battleship, USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) also firing her guns in salute. A group of British buglers plays "The Last Post," during the ceremony. U.S. Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis and Territorial Governor of Hawaii, Wallace R. Farrington, step into a Hawaiian outrigger canoe for a short trip across the bay. Next they are seen stepping from the canoe, to a Navy launch tied at the dock in Napoopoo, and thence to the dock, itself. Change of scene shows Secretary Davis and Governor Farrington, with many other dinner guests at a traditional Hawaiian Luau meal with many foods. There Secretary Davis is also seen delivering remarks to the gathering.
Scenes of battle during World War I. Signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928
Opening scene shows a British Siege battery of several 9.2 inch howitzers. View from a protected position, of a huge shell exploding. A formation of French Spad airplanes in flight. A French Renault F-17 light tank traversing rough terrain near a forest. Bombs being dropped by hand from an open cockpit airplane. Three bombs exploding on the ground. German troops running past the camera. Glimpse of others in a trench in the background, who appear to be wearing Pickelhauben. Explosions with dense white smoke. A fallen soldier on a litter, on the ground. Nighttime view of artillery flashes. Troops silhouetted against fires burning in the background as they move at night. Smoke blowing across the scene, as artillery fires. A railroad gun firing. A battery of two French 320 mm railway guns. A shell exploding in a field. French 320mm gun firing. Two French 370mm railway guns. One is firing. A soldier sheltering in a deep shell hole and smoke rising all over No-Man's Land. Wounded soldiers recuperating in a hospital. Patients and medical staff posing for photographs in a ward. Signing of the Kellogg-Briand (Pact of Paris) outlawing war, on Aug. 27, 1928, at the Palais D'Orsay, in Paris, France.
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie addresses the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie addresses the Assembly of the League of Nations at the Palais Électoral (Rue du Général-Dufour 24, 1204 Genève, Switzerland) in Geneva during the Second Italo-Abysinnian war. Some outbursts from the audience cease after the gavel is pounded. The members of the meeting applaud and cheer as the speaker puts forward his views in French. The leader finishes with his address and walks down the stage.
