Refine Your Search

Brest France 1920 stock footage and images

- Showing 4447 to 4452 of 5747 results
French officers award Fourragère military award to Major General Walton H. Walker during WW2

United States Major General Walton H. Walker receives Fourragère military award from the French during World War 2. French officers march down monument stairs of the Victory Monument in Verdun (Rue Mazel, 55100 Verdun, France) Major General Walton H. Walker, of the XX Corps, receives the Fourragère. Major General Walton H. Walker shakes hands with French officers. French troops pass in review at the Verdun Victory Monument.

Date: 1944, November 2
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078637
French performs reconnaissance and prepares Paris defense before Battle of Marne WWI

A proclamation issued on September 3, 1914 from General Joseph Simon Gallieni urging the defense of Paris in light of the French government’s evacuation for Bordeaux and the incoming Battle of Marne during World War 1. “MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF PARIS Army of Paris, Residents of Paris, The members of the Government of the Republic have left Paris to give a new impulse to the national defense. I have received the mandate to defend Paris against the invader. This mandate, I shall carry out to the end. Paris, 3 September 1914 The Military Governor of Paris, Commanding the Army of Paris, GALLIENI” translated in English. Workers using pickaxes to break stones at a park in Paris, France. Soldiers in position behind a trench made of tree branches. A soldier uses a telephone while hiding under a tent of twigs. A French military official answers call. French soldiers towing a reconnaissance aircraft. A French Blériot XI observation aircraft takes off from an airfield for a reconnaissance mission. Aerial view of countryside outside Paris and surrounding areas as seen from a Blériot XI’s , with the French Army incorporating cameras in reconnaissance planes from the beginning of World War 1. The Blériot XI aircraft lands back to the airbase. Reconnaissance pilot reports his findings, showing his logbook. French military official working at his desk. French officers consulting reports posted on a wall inside their office. Under a canopy of twigs, a military officer uses a telephone to receive orders.

Date: 1914, September 3
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079169
Parisians at Bois de Boulogne, car hailed for exotic dancer Mata Hari (WW1)

Street scenes in Paris during World War 1. Parisians trying to hail a taxi cab on either Avenue du Bois de Boulogne (now known as Avenue Foch) or Avenue de Friedland. Parisians ride white horses, feed swan on the lake at the Bois de Boulogne (75016 Paris, France). A man puts a coat on Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan, Mata Hari (born as Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), then hailing a car for her. The man helps Mata Hari enter the car. Parisians strolling the Champs-Elysées in winter. Four women holding each other while walking along the promenade.

Date: 1916, January
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079201
French soldiers marching as General Philippe Pétain's car passes, WW1

French soldiers, wearing the M15 Adrian helmet, marching through a forest in France (likely the Battle of Verdun) during World War 1. French soldiers in foxholes. French infantry marching up a hill, a dog accompanies the soldiers. The camera follows General Philippe Pétain's car as marching soldiers pass on the Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way"). Camera follows General Philippe Pétain's car as it drives through a French village (likely Souilly, the headquarters of General Pétain).

Date: 1916
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079209
Public transportation and street scenes in Paris in WW1 era.

City transport in Paris, France during World War 1. Passengers inside a train on the Paris Métro. An M1 rolling stock train arrives at a Paris Métro station. People disembark from the M1 train. Passengers walking down the stairs. Cafe scene with Parisians dining al fresco outside a bistro restaurant on a crowded street with pedestrians and traffic. Passengers inside a moving Paris tram (trolley, streetcar) filmed from camera positioned in an adjacent moving vehicle. Paris trolley filled with passengers moves along a street.

Date: 1916, January
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079216
United States military vehicles pass by a destroyed M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car on roadside (WW2)

United States military vehicles driving through devastated landscape of Avranches, Normandy during World War 2. Aerial view of Avranches with United States Army vehicles driving on the road. A wrecked M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car on roadside. Various United States Army vehicles such as M4 Sherman tanks, half-tracks and trucks pass by the wreckage of M8 Greyhound Light Armored Car. A United States Army truck and a Red Cross ambulance truck pass through devastated buildings and wreckage near Avranches, France.

Date: 1944, August 1
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079346