French military officers seated in a transport aircraft in flight over Indochina. Marius Moutet, French Overseas minister, seated at a table with associate. They read newspaper and book and look out the window. Minister Moutet waves symbolically, out the window. Low level aerial views out airplane cockpit window of several buildings, including Angkor Wat, in Cambodia and a Cathedral. View of many small boats in and on the shore of a river.
Flags flutter on a building in Laos, French Indochina. Laotian children stand in line with flags in their hands. French Overseas Minister, Marius Moutet, is given a traditional welcome, by residents, who each present him with flowers. Minister Moutet, later visits a Buddhist temple and greets monks, who stand in a line. One of the monks wears French military decorations.
During his visit to French Indochina, Marius Moutet, French Overseas Minister, visits King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. Uniformed guards stand before the Throne Hall in Phnom Penh. Minister Moutet arrives in a car and is greeted by the King who has arranged a formal reception for Minister Moutet. Cambodian officials and officers form a line to meet the French Minister. Refreshments are served and officials mingle and converse. The King stands at palace steps and bids Minister Moutet farewell.
U.S. Army Air Force B-24s bombing targets in Japanese-held areas of Indochina, during the Second World War. View of U.S. Army Air Force B-24 from waist gun position of another B-24. View from B-24 (below 10,000 feet) over an airfield. Waist gunner poses, without oxygen mask, at his machine gun (not firing). View from 17,500 feet as B-24s bomb a supply depot in Hanoi. Clouds of smoke rise from numerous bomb explosions. B-24s on mission to bomb Haiphong, Indochina. Aerial view of B-24 named "80 Days," with two dice (a Five and a Three) pictured under its name. Bombs falling from B-24s as they bomb smelting and foundry plants from 17,000 feet over port city of Haiphong. Smoke rising from targets.
French troops repel the communists from Indochina during the Indochina War. Paratroopers drop in the Indochina Delta. They wade through water. The paratroopers fire guns. French troops advance under Vietminh fire. Machine-guns are fired. Dead soldiers on the ground. The place where the son of French Commander in Chief, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny was killed. Vietnamese run looking scared. The French point guns at them. French troops raise the French flag. They return to a fort in trucks.
French military and government officials at a ceremony in Indochina on the ground of a Buddhist temple. The group gathered in an outdoor courtyard with a giant black cauldron or pot with steam coming from it. Shift to an indoor setting where a French official addresses the audience gathered from a lectern on a stage. Shift to an outdoor scene with a large group of monks entering the Wat Phnom Daun Penh temple by ascending the stairs in front. An arch bridge over a river. Cars on a road in Indochina. A steam locomotive pulling rail cars through a pass and racing toward camera position at high speed. An aqueduct in Indochina and a series of canals funneling water to rice fields, and a view of a farmer plowing on a wet field with the help of oxen. Views of the Pasteur Institute ("Institut Pasteur" over the doorway) in Indochina. Scientists in white lab coats working in the Institute with microscopes. Glass sample jars labeled "Cholera" being packed into boxes.
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