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Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, of the U.S. Military Airlift Command, demonstrates short takeoff and landing capabilities at Paris Air Show

Paris Air Show. Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transport aircraft of the U.S. Air Force Military Airlift Command, demonstrates short takeoff and landing (STOL) capabilities. C-5A taxis to the right, turns and makes short take-off with high performance climb. It flies low, extends flaps, with gear still retracted, and demonstrates slow flight. It then enters normal flight pattern for landing and makes a short landing to full stop on the runway, at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France. Other aircraft and buildings in the background.

Date: 1971, May
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041823
Views of Paris in 1961

Opening scene shows statue outside Le Musée des Monuments Francais, at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower is in the background. Tourists take pictures of the tower from another building. Views from atop Notre Dame Cathedral, of paris, and of the Seine River and several bridges over it. Sightseeing boat cruising on the river. View from atop the Arch of Triumph of traffic on the Champs-Élysees. Traffic encircling the Arch (Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile). View of bridge over the Seine.

Date: 1961, June
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034255
Jazz being performed in a Paris night club after World War I

Zelli’s Royal Box night club in Paris, owned by Joe Zelli and located at 16 bis rue Fontaine. Several tables set in the club. People seated at the tables. The room is decorated. Bottles of alcoholic beverages are evident everywhere. An African American dancer performs in the center of the dance floor. Audience cheers and claps. An African American ensemble plays jazz and patrons dance. The trumpet player is Crickett Smith, and the drummer is USA Army Corporal Eugene Bullard. Patrons are seen on the dance floor under a chandelier with streamers. A balcony is seen above, where so-called "Royal Boxes"were arranged allowing patrons to watch festivities below. (Note: Bullard lived a storied life. Among other things, he served in World War 1 as one of 200 U.S. servicemen who flew for France. He was the first African American combat pilot and the first to shoot down enemy aircraft, and was decorated multiple times for valor. He was living in the Montmartre section of Paris after World War 1, which was known as a center for American Jazz music. He learned to play drums from the pioneer jazz musician Louis Mitchell and played in the house band at Zellis nightclub before taking over the management of a nightclub called Le Grand Duc, in 1924. The 2006 movie "Flyboys" portrayed members of the Lafayette Flying Corps and included a character based on Bullard.)

Date: 1920
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041688
Ruins in Place Clemenceau of Fère-Champenoise; French citizens flee town during German advance in World War II.

Damaged and abandoned French artillery guns in position in the Place Georges Clemenceau of the town of Fère-Champenoise (Marne). Dead horses lay on the pavement in the Place Clemenceau town square following battle. Camera pans along to sides of the town square. Numerous dead horses are seen. Shops on two sides of the square are burned out and destroyed, including a restaurant on one corner and the Cafe du Commerce on another corner (Rebuilt and still there today in Place Clemenceau, 51230 Fère-Champenoise). Street sign is visible along N4 road pointing to Connantray-Vaurefroy, 5 km away, and Vitry-le-François, 44 km away. French citizens and refugees evacuating along a country road during Battle of France, with horse-drawn wagons, cars, and bicycles, past occupying German troops on motorcycles and in trucks. French cars parked along the edge of road. One has trouble crank-starting. Others proceed slowly along the road with many belongings.

Date: 1940, June
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073798
President of France Raymond Poincaré, arriving at Quai d' Orsay in Paris, France (WW1)

Outer view of Quai d' Orsay (37, Quai d'Orsay - 75007 Paris) or the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. President of France Raymond Poincaré arrive in a motor car. He has arrived to attend the preliminary meeting of the International Allied Peace Conference in Paris. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, December 12
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026948
Withdrawal of NATO forces from France; scenes of Americans stationed in France

A U.S. Military Policeman (MP) directs traffic at the U.S. Army Communications Zone Europe Headquarters in France. Aerial views of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military force base. A map shows locations of NATO bases in France. An aircraft flies overhead. Officials communicate over the wireless and telephone in the Chateauroux Air Base control tower. U.S. military airplanes parked on an air strip. U.S. Air Force trucks. Narrator discusses impact on French economy and social issue related to departure of so many Americans from France. French men employed at the base walk as a group heading to or from work at the base. American soldiers with their French wives and families. Soldier with wife and son walking on street with Eglise Saint-Andre church in background. A soldier and his wife in a shopping center as a sales woman helps the couple look at silverware. Closeup view of a LP vinyl record playing on a phonograph record player turntable. An American soldier by the microphone at a Armed Forces Radio network military broadcasting installation. View of the DJ and the control room in the radio broadcasting studio. French people gathered on the streets to witness a marching band on parade from Chateauroux American High School in Châteauroux, France. Flag corps dancers and marching band members playing musical instruments are seen in the parade. View from ground looking upward as an American flag is lowered from a flagpole. View of a triangle folder American flag being held by a U.S. Army Military Police man, as he carries it away.

Date: 1966, April 28
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031161