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The drivers drive along turns and darkened straight-ways during 24 hours auto racing competition in La Mans, France.

Auto racers drive for 24 hours and thrill crowd in Le Mans, France. The racing cars at the starting spot and the race starts. A board reads 'Bougie champion'. The drivers drive on sharp turns and darkened straight-ways. Spectators stand on side of the racing track and cheer. The car race finishes. A man gives signal for the finish of the race. The drivers seated in cars.

Date: 1938, July 6
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033916
Ukrainians and Belorussians, who fled to France to escape poor treatment under Polish domination, return home after 20 years.

The Soviet ship Vyacheslav Molotov is seen, docked at the French port of Le Havre. A crane raises cargo onto the ship. Ukrainian and Belorussian passengers stand on the pier, ready to board the ship that will take them to their former hometowns. One woman walks up the gangplank with a flag and a carryall displaying the image of Joseph stalin. On the pier, French Army officers process the embarking passengers, as a Soviet Army officer stands nearby. Closeup of documents being stamped. (Narrator states that these refugees fled their homes for France, 20 years earlier, when they were under the domination of Poland.) The Soviet officer encouraging passengers up the gangplank. View from high on the ship, of passengers clustered around the processing station. Camera pans up to the ship's funnel, where Soviet hammer and sicle is displayed. View from behind people waving on the dock, of the passengers lining the railing of the ship, waving goodbye as the ship slowly begins to move forward and then is seen underway. Scene fades to reopen showing the ship in waters of the Black Sea approaching the port of Odessa, Ukraine. Buildings seen upon cliffs overlooking the port. Several views of the passengers assembled on deck looking toward shore. Closeups of passengers and their flags. A Ukrainian woman gives a speech about her joy at homecoming. Other passengers applaud. A man holds up a homemade sign reading (in Russian) "LONG LIVE SOVIET-HOMELAND I-EE-GOVERNMENT." Passengers disembarking down the gangplank, carrying flags and riding in open small trucks away from the ship.

Date: 1946
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054040
Newspaper headlines Wilbur Wright sustained demonstration flight in France.

Headline of the newspaper 'New York American' reads 'Wright Glides in Air as a Hawk, Flies 2.17 miles in 106 seconds'. Pictures of the Wright Model A Flyer under the headlines. Wright Model A Flyer being readied for flight at the Hunaudieres horse racing track near Le Mans, France. A horse-drawn wagon pulls the flyer into a field. Crew of men pull rope to raise a launching weight in a tower. The plane is catapulted along a rail and into the air, when the men release the weight. Spectators in a grandstand look through binoculars. Louis Bleriot is seen. Views of the Wright plane in flight, where it attained an altitude of 360 feet.

Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044880
Wilbur Wright flies Wright Model A Flyer during the first public flight demonstrations in France.

Headline of the newspaper 'New York American' reads 'Wright Glides in Air as a Hawk, Flies 2.17 miles in 106 seconds'. Pictures of the Wright Model A Flyer under the headlines. Wilbur Wright prepares the Wright Model A Flyer for flight at the Hunaudieres horse racing track near Le Mans, France. A horse cart pulls the plane on field. Men pull a rope connected to a launching weight held in a derrick. The plane is catapulted from the runway when the men release the weight. Spectators in a grandstand look through binoculars, among them is Louis Bleriot. View of the Wright plane in flight high above the racetrack, with Wilbur Wright seated upright at the controls.

Date: 1908, August 8
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049965
German Army in combat with Allies in Battle for Caen. Scenes of heavily destroyed town of Caen in France. (WW2)

German self-propelled howitzers, infantry, and tanks advance through a field in France during World War II. View of 10.5cm leFH 18 auf Geschuetzwagen 39H(f) FCM Self-Propelled Howitzer (SPH) Vehicle underway. German Armor crossing field. View of a 10.5cm leFH 18/40 auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schlepper(f) in motion. German soldiers crossing field on foot toward city. Knocked out Allied tanks including Sherman tanks along the way. German mobile rocket launchers fire rockets at enemy Allied aircraft and bring one down. Scenes of heavily destroyed town of Caen in France, narrated by a France News commentator. Ruins, rubble and wreckage of the destroyed town buildings from Allied bombing campaign. Air raid wardens search the rubble. Adults and children in a yard of the city's cathedral.

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: French
Clip: 65675029040
Rue de Rivoli, Tuileries gardens and Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.

Traffic on the streets in Paris, France. Cars and buses pass by. Pedestrians walk near shops at Avenue de Champs Elysees. Traffic at Rue de Rivoli. Pedestrians cross the street. A view of fountains. Buildings in the background. A sign on a building reads 'Le Figaro'. View of the Tuileries Gardens (Pl. de la Concorde, 75001 Paris, France). The Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) in background.

Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053811