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Magician Harry Houdini escapes from straitjacket and ropes.

Escape artist and stage magician Harry Houdini performs. Huge crowd watches police buckle Harry Houdini into a straitjacket. Harry Houdini, upside down and wearing a straitjacket, being hoisted by a crane four stories above the ground. Harry Houdini escaping from straitjacket and throwing it to the ground. At a Paris theater, three men tie Harry Houdini to a chair. A gendarme sits beside Harry Houdini as he watches. Harry Houdini struggles to free himself, falls with his chair, and manages to undo his rope. Harry Houdini covers the head of the gendarme with coat, ties rope around gendarme’s neck and to the chair.

Location: France
Date: 1902
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078921
French troops watch performers during rest and recuperation in WWI.

French soldiers, some smoking, about to leave military encampment for R&R (rest and recuperation) during World War I. Sign behind soldiers say “Permissionnaires depart: autos 9.40” (“Departure permits: Vehicles 9:40” in English). Soldiers waving from truck as they leave their camp. Soldiers arriving in town. French soldiers taking down notes beside a cinema (Little Abellar Cinema). An Allied soldier, with chevrons on his arm, pays for a ticket at a box office. Soldiers, including some of French African descent, watch a comedian’s performance. Soldiers and civilians laughing at humor sketches of the comedian. Soldiers meet an actress wearing medieval-style period dress. A fat soldier lights a cigarette for a comrade, who is holding a bouquet of white flowers. Soldiers distribute white flowers from the bouquet. Soldier lightheartedly taps an African soldier’s cheeks, together they are laughing.

Location: France
Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079168
French soldiers demonstrate “creeper tanks” to General Ferdinand Foch during WWI

French General Ferdinand Foch observes experimental mobile personnel shields (also known as “creeper tanks”) during demonstration, World War 1. French soldiers carrying wheels and parts to assemble creeper tanks. Assembled mobile personnel shields lined up neatly in a field. French soldiers assemble mobile personnel shields. General Ferdinand Foch and other French officers watch a soldier crawl into his mobile personnel shield Soldiers crawling in their creeper tanks across a field, one pulling a rope with him. A soldier crawls with his creeper tank across a simulation battlefield complete with explosions. General Ferdinand Foch observes the demonstration from afar. A soldier crawling with a mobile personnel shield near an explosion. In distance, soldier in creeper tank is seen frantically backing away from explosion.

Location: France
Date: 1914
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079173
French President Georges Clemenceau visits ruined town during WW1.

French President Georges Clemenceau inspects a devastated town after its liberation from Imperial German forces (WW1). Sign says "Mines... Danger de... Defense d'Entr...". President Georges Clemenceau carefully walks through rubble and debris with other French officials. Georges Clemenceau points to a ruined Hôtel de Ville (City Hall). A man, standing on portable stairs, attempts to place the French flag on the façade of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall). President Georges Clemenceau and French officials walk away. French soldiers walking on a devastated street filled with smoke.

Location: France
Date: 1918
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079214
British soldiers attack the Hindenburg Line and capture German prisoners, WW1

Allied forces attack the Hindenburg Line (also known as the "Siegfriedstellung", or "Siegfried Position") on the Western Front in World War 1. Men firing artillery. A tank reverses. British soldiers, holding bayonets, carefully move through barbed wire, following a tank (named "Mary"). Tank crosses a small wooden bridge, with British infantry following. British soldiers slide into a trench. German soldiers, taken as prisoners, are being led away by Allied troops.

Location: France
Date: 1918
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079219
A French Army staff car driving and Renault FT tanks in a forest (WW1)

A World War 1 French Army staff car driving in the middle of a forest. Staff car front view of forest. Staff car maneuvers to avoid hitting a tree. A Renault FT tank in the middle of a forest. Staff car driving up an elevated ground, then races through the forest. Renault FT tanks moving through forest. Staff car driving out of the forest.

Location: France
Date: 1917
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675079225
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