Features notables in early aviation history. Early aviation pioneers attend the first International Aviation Meet held at Rheims. An early model French aircraft taxis. Colonel Courzi seated in the cockpit of an early model aircraft. Plane in flight. Wilbur Wright gives a flying demonstration at International meeting. Louis Paulhan gives a demonstration of flight on his aircraft. Two aircraft fly around pylon. One piloted by Glenn Curtiss. Men sit in a car. Hubert Latham flies an aircraft. Louis Breguet crashes. People rush to the crash scene and cameramen take photographs. Louis Breguet standing near a car. Louis Bleriot in an airplane on the airfield. Louis Blériot looks out from the cockpit. Henri Farman in an aircraft. People observe air show.
'Terminus Aviation Buffet' written on a building in Paris. People gathered in front of the building. A huge crowd. Aviator Charles Lindbergh looks below from a building. People gather to welcome him. Posters on the walls in the street. Charles Lindbergh waves U.S. flag and French flag. Men stand with him in the building. Crowd cheers.
Men examine a plane in Paris. People gather in front of a hangar. Aviator Charles Lindbergh arrives with a group of men. They escort him by a French biplane and down a street past an honor guard. Large group gathers around the monoplane of Charles Lindbergh 'Spirit of St Louis'. Charles Lindbergh poses on steps next to French President Gaston Doumergue. He wears the Honor Legion medal awarded by the French President
Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Soldiers, women and others pose. One young woman wears a soldiers cap. Huge crowd gathered on either side of road. The streets are crowded with people who do a snake dance in the Avenue de l'Opera. Several men and women stand in a group on stairs. A woman carries flags. People cheer. Automobiles, carrying people on their roofs, pass through the street. Cars, horse drawn wagon and other automobiles on the street. World War 1 Allied soldiers pose on a step with a woman holding Crossed British and French flags. They remove their hats and wave. Celebrants ride on running boards of cars carrying flags. A group of women marches with arms linked together, shouting and smiling. Every kind of vehicle joins in the moving celebration and crowds swarm about them on the happy occasion.
Armistice Day celebration in Paris. A man plays guitar and others play violins. A pile of papers in front of a group of men. The streets crowded with people. French and American soldiers and sailors from World War 1 pose holding flags. Shops in the background. A military truck, carrying an unimaginable number of revelers,makes its way through the crowds. American and French aviators stand with women on the balcony of a building. One American, holding a model airplane in his hand, is hanging off the balcony. Crowd celebrates at entrance to the Palace Hotel.
Armistice Day celebration in Paris, marking the end of World War 1. Two women raised on shoulders of American soldiers, wave American flags. Other people wave United States flags. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles, on Avenue des Champs Elysees in the background. French soldier plays concertina. American soldier salutes a French woman, in a fur coat, who presents him a large bouquet of flowers. War veterans parade carrying flags of various Allied Nations.One veteran is in a wheel chair and plays a bugle.. An African American French Colonial soldier stands next to the French veteran in the wheel chair and plays his bugle.Passersby give the wheelchair veteran sprigs of flowers which he places in a bunch on his uniform pocket. Parade on the streets. Several French soldiers carry an American soldier on their shoulders. He waves an American flag. Soldiers stand with a French woman, who cheers and places a bunch of flowers on the uniform of one of the soldiers.
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