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Scenes of nightlife in Paris France in the 1920s

Entertainment and nightlife attractions in Paris France during the 1920s "roaring twenties." Many buildings and places of entertainment. Neon lighted signs and marquees of various nightclubs. A lighted sign advertising Campari bitters liqueur is seen atop a building. Sign advertising Florelle, a French artist of cinema and theater at the casino of Paris. The Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergere, where a tableau of beautiful girls is seen dancing. Josephine Baker performing. Wealthy people watching a performance from boxes in a theater. Audiences watching and applauding performances. People in fine clothes drinking in bars and nightclubs. Dinner party at Le Rat Mort. Various activities and parties being enjoyed by men and women in Paris.

Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065231
Maurice Thorez addresses a Communist gathering in Paris, France.

French communist party leader Maurice Thorez addresses a crowd in Paris, France. French communists march along streets with banners. Thorez and some communist leaders walk along the streets. A large crowd marches in a procession with the communist leaders. Maurice Thorez addresses the assembled crowd. Sign seen in crowd reads, 'Vive Le PCF', translated as 'Long live the PCF' PCF stands for the Parti communiste français, or French Communist Party. Very short shot of the ruins of a train accident are seen at the end of the clip, possibly the aftermath of the collision between the Paris-Nancy Express and the Paris-Strasbourg fast train.

Date: 1948
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065374
U.S. and French Generals salute and review troops during the anniversary of the D-Day at Utah Beach in Normandy, France.

The anniversary of the D-Day at Utah Beach in Normandy, France during World War II. Girls in U.S. and French flag dresses. Wreaths are placed at the foot of a monument by U.S. and French representatives. U.S. and French troops pass in review. A crowd at the ceremony. U.S. and French representatives stand beside the D-Day monument to U.S. Army's 1st Brigade of Engineers and salute. They climb down stairs. French General Paul Le Gentilhomme salutes. Artillery guns in the background. Soldiers stand beside the monument and salute. The soldiers hold the U.S. and French flags.

Date: 1945, June 6
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070994
Charles Lindbergh attends a farewell dinner in his honor in Paris and departs for Brussels.

Aviator Charles Lindberg in Paris after his trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh honored at a dinner attended by the distinguished men of France. The guests seated at a table. Lindbergh's plane 'Spirit of St Louis' parked in the background. Guests including French President Gaston Doumergue. U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick bids farewell to Lindbergh. Men prepare his plane for the flight. A large crowd looks on as his plane taxiing at Le Bourget aerodrome (Paris-Le Bourget Airport, Rue de Prague, Zone Aviateurs, Le Bourget, F-93350). The Spirit of St. Louis takes off for Brussels, Belgium.

Date: 1928
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031358
The Wright Flyer is demonstrated at a horse racing track before a large crowd.

People gather in the grandstand of the Hunaudieres horse racing track near Le Mans, France, in 1908, to watch Wilbur Wright's demonstration of the Wright Flyer airplane. It is a major social event. An article about Wright in the newspaper. They take a passenger with them for 36 miles. An airplane in the field. Men work on the plane. Views of the Wright Flyer aloft, with a passenger.

Date: 1908
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027436
French Bastille Day parade in Paris 1939, and German troops occupying Paris in 1940, during World War II

A group of German army troops seem marching casually at Champ de Mars, Paris, during 1940, in World War 2. Sounds of a fife and drum corps are heard in background. The Eiffel tower looms in the background. Some soldiers are on bicycles. View shifts to a nearly empty Champs Elysees, with Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) in the distance. German military vehicles move along the edge of the road. Camera moves closer to the Arc de Triomphe. Suddenly the scene shifts back a year, to the 1939 Bastille Day parade, in Paris. It shows British Grenadiers in uniform with bearskin hats, parading on the Champs Elysees, along with French Colonial Senegalese Riflemen wearing the Fez. Also seen are French Sailors, and infantry. Then, from a high point overlooking the parade, vehicles are seen pulling artillery. Back at street level, French 2-man Renault UE Chenillette tankettes are seen in formation. They are followed by a formation of Panhard AMD armored cars. Scene reverts to the present (1940) with German occupation troops marching past the Arc de Triomphe. As the German troops pass, German Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) Fedor von Bock, Commander of Army Group B, is seen briefly saluting, as he reviews the troops from the sidelines. Another General stands with him. Spectators and column of German troops seen from Eiffel Tower. A German officer on horseback, leading his troops. Marshal von Bock, saluting. Various closeups of parading troops. View from an aircraft flying over the city of Paris, with Arc de Triomphe near center of the view. German troops towing artillery and caissons by teams of horses. Glimpse of the Arc de Triomphe, and Eiffel Tower. Horse-drawn wagons, carrying German troops and towing field artillery at the Place de la Concorde. The French Naval Department building (Hôtel de la Marine, 2 Pl. de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France) seen behind them. Parisians watching solemnly from sidewalks. German sentries posted at the Hôtel des Invalides. (Les Invalides, 129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France). French policemen giving directions to a German soldier, holding a map. German troops moving along the side of a commercial district street. Two French women smiling as the camera focuses on them. German soldiers marching cheerfully, along a French country road with a chorus heard singing in the background.

Date: 1940
Duration: 4 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675021844