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French women collaborationists during a trial and women with shaved heads in Paris, France during the liberation of France.

Scenes in Paris during the liberation of France at the time of World War II. French civilians gathered for a trial of women collaborationists. The accused women stand in front of a table outside a building, with other people seated at the table on the other side. Several people gathered around watch the women being questioned. People talking during the trial. One of the woman's hair being cut by a man in the porch of the building. Women with the shaved heads walk down the steps of the building. The women walk in a line. People gathered on either side of a path. The women in a truck are driven along streets. A crowd jeers at them. Several people gathered on the streets look at the women.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055127
Frenchmen bury dead paratroopers of U.S. 82nd Airborne Division near Eterville France after D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.

A U.S. cemetery near Eterville after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France during World War II. Frenchmen bury dead paratroopers of U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. Wrecked gliders in the foreground.

Date: 1944, June 10
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061292
Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval discuss in the office of the Vichy regime in France.

Vichy France leaders in France during World War II. Chief of State of Vichy France Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Petain and President of the Council Pierre Laval in an office. Henri Petain sits in a chair and talks to Pierre Laval. Inside view of the office of Vichy France. Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval on a bench discuss a document.

Date: 1944, May 16
Duration: 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065423
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
Allied officers accept surrender of a German unit in Cordemais France; scenes of relief work for citizens and elderly in France.

Scenes in France near the end of World War 2, a sign "Cordemais" on a damaged building (likely the train station at Cordemais, France). A white flag of German surrender flies in the breeze. American sldiers stand near the building as a German surrender delegation approaches, led by negotiator Hauptmann Reinhold Mueller, to arrange handover of the St Nazaire enclave. A US Army soldier translator is seen speaking to the German officers and taking notes. French negotiator representatives are also seen, including one in black beret with a paratrooper insignia on his uniform. Red Cross representatives are seen taking notes. German and Allied officers (American, British, French) at the surrender conference. French civilians repair railroad tracks damaged during the war. French refugees are assisted by Red Cross workers. Troops board a train and it departs. A sign "Chantenay" (presumably at the train station in Chantenay-Villedieu). Group of people including boy scouts waiting to greet relief train as it pulls in to station. Close up views of the faces of men and women waiting to greet the train with civilians on board. Red Cross nurses walk quickly on railway tracks after train to greet it as it pulls into station. Men and women on train wave. Women, infants, and children first are seen getting off the train at an evacuation center. Scene changes to a snowy woods area and a large dwelling in the woods. A elderly woman collects firewood. An elderly man collects burnable twigs from trash cans and puts them in a bag. Three different older men shown filing a metal item in a vice with a metal file. Man picks up a small frame with a photo depicting a French officer in uniform. Grave site of a French soldier with cross marker and combat helmet hung from the cross top. Ground level view of a line of graves of French soldiers killed in World War 2, each with a helmet hanging on the cross grave marker. An old French woman praying with a rosary. A old woman sitting by a window. Another old woman huddled beside a wood stove rubbing her cold hands and pulling her blanket shawl higher on her shoulders. An old man taking tea in bed. A man rings a doorbell (hanging from a cord) in front of a hospice. Elderly man smokes a pipe and another lights his cigarette from it, women knit. Close up views of faces of elderly French people. Elderly dine at long tables in large hall. French people standing in a line outside a shop. Dix Francs currency of France shown. Views of young women typing and sewing. A diagram of human figures shown. Scenes from a house: An old woman knits, an old man reads, a young woman greets them with kisses.

Date: 1945, May 8
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044600
The SS France is ready for trans Atlantic service after completing trial runs in France.

Launching ceremony of ocean liner SS France at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard, in Saint-Nazaire, France. People gather for the launching ceremony at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard (Avenue Antoine Bourdelle CS90180 44613 Saint-Nazaire Cedex France). French President Charles de Gaulle addresses the crowd from a stage. People applaud. The liner is christened by the First Lady of France Yvonne de Gaulle at 4:15 PM. The newly launched ship slides down the shipway. The ship sails out into sea.

Date: 1961, November 30
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055895