Refine Your Search

Charleroi Belgium 1919 stock footage and images

- Showing 37 to 42 of 1149 results
Joseph Lambericks wins the Belgium Cross Populaire, a cross country race, in Belgium.

Belgium Cross Populaire in Belgium. The cross country race begins. 2700 men take part in the race. Spectators lined up on either side cheer the runners as they run. The runners run across a rugged field. The winner Joseph Lambericks poses for the photographers.

Date: 1961, November 30
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055896
U.S. Army employs delaying tactics to slow German advance during Battle of the Bulge in World War II

Opening scene shows Belgian rescue workers searching for survivors of a German V-2 rocket strike in the city of Antwerp, Belgium, on 17 December, 1944, during World War 2. Some clergymen help steel-helmeted emergency workers carry a victim from the rubble, on a stretcher. Aerial view of the port of Antwerp showing its extensive facilities including rail lines. U.S. Army troops of the American 2nd Infantry Division withdrawing in trucks towards Elsenborn, Belgium, as the German offensive gains ground. Snow covers the ground. Piles of fuel, gas, and diesel cans are seen on fire at a fuel dump near Stavelot, Belgium, where soldiers of Company A, 526th Armored Infantry Battalion, are destroying the fuels to keep them out of the hands of German forces advancing on the town. U.S. Army engineers carry boxes of TNT inside German-built pillbox fortifications and and blow them up. Large explosions seen. An engineer notching a tree beside a road. Others insert explosives and string wire to detonate the charges and create road blocks. Engineers place land mines into holes in a road outside of Elsenborn.

Date: 1944, December 17
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044522
U.S. Army forces build up supplies and advance positions in preparation for invasion of Germany during World War 2

Activities of American first Army in Germany. Aerial and ground views of an Allied supply depot at Liege, Belgium. U.S. Army soldiers arrange supply boxes. Signal Corps engineers work on readying communication lines from the rear to the front and are seen stringing communication lines and preparing communication hubs. New transmission equipment of various kinds are received and installed for news. U.S. Army engineers supervise steel manufacture and sawmill operation in Luxembourg at a protected steel works facility that was taken over by the Allied Supreme Command. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel walk on finished steel beams and check them before shipment front. Plank boards are cut and stacked for use in road projects. U.S. engineers repair a bridge over the Meuse in Belgium that had been damaged in the Battle of Belgium. Train crosses a repaired bridge over the Meuse, and U.S. military and civilian pedestrian traffic seen on the bridge road. Track connectors are installed to better grip in mud and allow passage of Allied tanks and tracked vehicles. Aerial view of Siegfried line and Dragons Teeth. U.S. forces seen using a tank bulldozer and mud to effectively bury Dragon's Teeth tank traps to allow passage through the Siegfried Line. Allied trucks and vehicles are repaired. A convoy of Allied supply trucks passes by through a snowy landscape bringing supplies to the front in preparation for invasion into Germany.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044551
U.S. Army General Dwight D Eisenhower meets the Prime Minister of Belgium and other officials in Brussels, Belgium.

U.S. Army General Dwight David Eisenhower meets dignitaries in Brussels, Belgium during World War II. He meets Prince Charles and the Prime Minister of Belgium and other officials. The officials standing on the steps of a building. Eisenhower shaking hands with them.

Date: 1944, November 9
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076978
Demonstrations organized in Europe and the United Nations after the death of Congo's Premier Patrice Lumumba .

Demonstrations in the Republic of the Congo after the death of Premier Lumumba. Premier Patrice Lumumba with President Jospeph Kasavubu at Congo Independence Day celebration at an airport runway with other officials. King Baudouin of Belgium arrives in a formal military dress and descends down an airplane stairs. He shakes hands with the Premier and the President. Belgium troops march to the military plane. Premier Lumumba poses with other officials at the United Nations. Colonel Joseph Mobutu (Mobutu Sese Seko) poses. Demonstrations following the death of Premier Lumumba. Student march outside Belgium Embassy in Moscow. Pickets outside the UN building in New York. People demonstrating demand the withdrawal of UN troops from Congo. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson speaks at the United Nations assembly during his first address. A fight breaks out in the UN gallery and people are thrown out. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson continues his speech and apologizes.

Date: 1961, February 16
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047739
Wedding procession of Prince Umberto II and Belgian Princess Marie Jose in Rome, Italy.

The wedding procession of Italian Prince Umberto II and Princess Marie Jose of Belgium in Rome, Italy. King Albert I of Belgium sits with Italian King Victor Emmanuel III on a carriage ride. Thousands cheer during the procession. Queen Elisabeth of Belgium and Queen Elena of Italy in a horse carriage. Royal Guards on horseback follow the royal carriages. People watching the royal procession pass by the Fountain of the Naiads (Piazza della Repubblica, 00185 Roma RM, Italy) in the Piazza dell'Esedra (now known as the Piazza della Repubblica). The ancient basilica Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri is seen on the background. Prince Umberto and Princess Marie Jose appear in a balcony after their marriage ceremony in the Pauline Chapel inside the Quirinal Palace (Piazza del Quirinale, 00187 Roma RM, Italy). A huge crowd waving to the newlywed couple.

Date: 1930, January 8
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050767