Allied nations participate in an athletic meet at the Pershing Stadium outside Paris. A boxing match between France and the United States. Flags on the flag pole. A crowd gathers at the stadium to watch the match. Match in progress. Men seated around the boxing ring. Spike Webb, trainer of the U.S. boxing team posing.
The Automobile Club's Grand Prix in Montlhéry, France. Europe's most fearless Formula One race car drivers compete in the Grand Prix. People gather to watch the race. Participants drive F1 cars on the track.
Riots due to Stavisky scandal in Paris, France. Exterior of a building. Soldiers on horses moving around the building. Mob gather and a riot breaks out against the political corruption disclosed by the Stavisky scandal.
Notables in Paris, France, at ceremonies before the Panthéon De La Guerre is packaged and shipped to the United States, where it would be shown in various places, beginning with Madison Square Garden, New York City, May 19, 1927. Raymond Poincaré, President of the French Council of Ministers, speaks in the building housing the Panthéon De La Guerre. The American flag in a holder to his left. Principal participants including Mrs. W.K Vanderbilt (Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt, aka "Birdie") are seen in front row chairs. Closeup of several French officials, including Marshal Philippe Pétain and Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister. Mrs. Vanderbilt cuts a cord to release the huge cyclorama painting, the world's largest, featuring 5,000 full-length portraits of prominent figures from World War I. Views of the painting.
A festival in Cannes, France. Crowds watching parade.Several bands parade and play, including some representing French colonies, one in berets, another in yarmulkes, and yet, another, in fezes, carrying a Moroccan symbol on a pole .View of horse track and a horse race. Women in costumes on carriages drawn by horses along street. Flowered covered floats of various kinds,including one of an airplane, with boys riding in it. Views of palm lined streets and waterfront in Cannes. A woman in traditional hat of French Indochina.
Several men and women enter the Colonne de Juilliet (July Column) at the center of the Place de la Bastille, in Paris, France. View of the Spirit of Liberty Statue, sculpted by Auguste Dumont, atop the tower. Men and women emerge from internal stairs in the column and walk out onto circular balcony. A man with beard is setting up an instrument to measure the sway of the tower. He checks readings on the instrument. He discusses the action of the instrument with a woman. Another woman near railing looks down. The Eiffel Tower is visible in the distance. View of instrument plunger reacting to the tower's sway. A heavy woman enters the tower. As she walks about on the balcony, the sway meter responds strongly.
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