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Wright Brothers give first public demonstration of their Wright flyer in Le Mans, France.

Officials and interested spectators fill the stands at Hunaudieres race course, near Le Mans, France, to watch a demonstration of a Wright Flyer airplane. Wilbur Wright places a large wheel under the aircraft as he and his team prepare a Model A Wright Flyer, for movement.Horses are seen towing it across a field. A man checks the planes launching track. Closeup of men maneuvering the aircraft into position on the launching track. Next, several of them are seen pulling together on a rope to raise a heavy weight up a small tower, to provide the launching power for the airplane. Next, two men pull the propellers through to start the Flyer’s engine. A passenger is already seated as Wilbur Wright climbs aboard and puts his hands and feet on the plane’s controls. View of the launching weight dropping to the ground and causing the Flyer to accelerate along its track and take off. A group of officials, wearing white armbands, watch the takeoff and the Flyer as Wilbur Wright maneuvers it skillfully above the race track grounds. Complete change of scene shows U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on a platform, covered with a huge American flag. He is giving a speech. Scene shifts back again to Le Mans, where the Wright Flyer is still maneuvering all about in the air, above the grounds. Scene shifts again to World War I. American volunteer flyers with the French Lafayette Escadrille are seen in flight gear, by their Spad airplanes (marked with their distinctive Indian in head dress logo). They run to their respective planes and board them. View of the Spad airplanes with engines running and then taxiing out for takeoff.

Location: Le Mans France
Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055378
Huge ammunition, tank, and artillery factories in Le Creusot, France.

Huge artillery, tank, and ammunition factories in Le Creusot, France. Workers in the factory work on shells, tanks and artillery. Number of French tanks move out in line from the factory.

Location: Le Creusot France
Date: 1938, April 6
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023174
Wright Brothers demonstrate flight with a passenger in Le Mans, France.

Wright Brothers demonstrate their airplane in public at Hunaudieres horse racing track near the town of Le Mans, France. The "Wright Flyer" is brought to the field in center of the track, by horses. French audience sits and talks. Two men rotate blades of the "flyer" to start it. A team of men pull a rope to raise a weight in a launching derrick. When the weight drops it catapults the airplane into the air. Views of the airplane in flight, with Wilbur Wright at the controls accompanied by a passenger.

Location: Le Mans France
Date: 1908
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026656
Wilbur Wright makes a world's altitude record by rising 360 feet at Le Mans, France.

Wilbur Wright makes a world's altitude record by rising 360 feet at Le Mans, France. Airplane flies in sky. High altitude view of snow covered mountains. Aerial view of snow covered fields, trees and mountains.

Location: Le Mans France
Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027438
Former prisoners of Devils' Island (French prison) disembark from the ocean liner Bretagne and board a train, in Le Havre, France.

Ships, steamers, submarines and other vessels underway at harbor, Le Havre in France. Ocean liner "Bretagne" approaches the ship docking area. Towing boats move beside the steamer. Former prisoners of the Devil's Island French prison disembark from the ocean liner. Workers inside a control room at a railway station. Former prisoners arrive at the station carrying their belongings. They board the train. People bid farewell as the train leaves the station.

Location: Le Havre France
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030222
Martin B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force bombing shipyards on the Seine in Le Trait, France

Several Martin B-26 Marauder bomber aircraft attacking over Le Trait in France. B-26 bomber aircraft flying in group on approach to shipyards on the Seine River. Aerial views of the aircraft dropping bombs, views of destroyed shipyards and smoke from the target areas. U.S. 8th Army Air Force footage. (World War II period).

Location: Le Trait France
Date: 1943, August 4
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030944
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