Robert Lacoste, French Resident minister of Algeria, speaks to group of Algerian steel workers, outside their factory. He and other officials, are then escorted on a tour of the facility. They see steel slabs being run through rolling mills,reducing them progressively to steel ribbons. Mr. Lacoste uses eye shielding to look at molten steel. Steel being poured from a furnace into a large ladle. Robert Lacoste shakes hands with Algerian plant manager.
Exterior view of the headquarters of Police (Ministry of the Interior) in Algeria. FLN leaders Ben Bella;Mohamed Booudiaf;Hocine Ait Ahmed;Mustafa Lacheref and Mohamed Khider, have been arrested after the French military forced down a Moroccan aircraft carrying them from Morocco to Tunis. They come out of the building, in handcuffs. The stand in a courtyard, surrounded by policemen. They are photographed and then walk back into the Ministry of Interior building.
Ministry of Interior compound in Algeria. Aerial view of buildings. Trees in the foreground. A car enters a building gateway. Policemen stand on either side of the gateway. Soldiers move across a field. A board on a building reads "Ministere De L'Interieur". Cars parked outside the building. FLN leaders, have been arrested after the French Military forced down a Moroccan aircraft carrying them from Morocco to Tunis. FLN leader,Hocine Ait Ahmed, passes between policemen in a hall and then climbs a stairway inside the building. FLN leader, Mohamed Khider, comes out of the hallway and also ascends the stairway. Mohamed Boudiaf, and then, Professor Mustafa Lacheref follow the other FLN leaders, out of the hall and up the stairs. Professor Lacheref is seen shaving himself at a lavatory sink, and then dressing in good clothes. Luggage of the FLN leaders is seen stacked in corner of a room.
Views of city of Algiers.The seaport and small boats. Jacques Soustelle, the Governor General of Algeria, moves through the streets in a motorcade, with Motorcycle escort. A large crowd of civilians gathered on either sides of the streets awaiting the arrival of the motorcade. They hold banners which read "hunneur Soustelle" and "vive Soustelle". A very large crowd is gathered in front of a building with "Compagnie Generale Transatlantique" inscribed upon it. People surround and stand upon a French army tank. French marines (Fusilliers-Marin),army troops and police, attempt to control the surging crowd. French officers on a white horse, brandishing sabers, attempt to establish order. A fallen spectator is picked up by police. Governor General Jacques Soustelle is protected by a phalanx of officials and police. Someone holds aloft a tricolor flag with the French Resistance Cross of Lorraine on it. A man climbs on a makeshift ladder to a porch on the building, where a derrick and construction site is seen. View of crowd in courtyard of the building. Governor General Soustelle surrounded by officials tries to move through the crowd. He is saluted by a contingent of soldiers, carrying a tricolor with crests and writing upon it. View of the building through the surging crowd. Many flags fly from its roof. A tall construction derrick appears above the roofline, in the background. Officials and soldiers and police encircle the Governor General, to protect him, and finally succeed in helping him to climb atop an army tank. The crowd waves at him as he stands on the tank, surrounded by officials and officers. .
Crowds of French colonials line sidewalks in Algeria, to cheer Jacques Soustelle, the Governor General as he moves along the streets in a motorcade with motorcycle escorts. Police try to control students who are shouting and milling about on sidewalk near a wall. View of a palace courtyard.
Dignitaries and officers greet Jacques Soustelle followed by a ceremony in which he is decorated by a French General. Afterwards, a large group of officers gathers to celebrate in a hall.