Armistice Day celebration in Paris, marking the end of World War 1. Two women raised on shoulders of American soldiers, wave American flags. Other people wave United States flags. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles, on Avenue des Champs Elysees in the background. French soldier plays concertina. American soldier salutes a French woman, in a fur coat, who presents him a large bouquet of flowers. War veterans parade carrying flags of various Allied Nations.One veteran is in a wheel chair and plays a bugle.. An African American French Colonial soldier stands next to the French veteran in the wheel chair and plays his bugle.Passersby give the wheelchair veteran sprigs of flowers which he places in a bunch on his uniform pocket. Parade on the streets. Several French soldiers carry an American soldier on their shoulders. He waves an American flag. Soldiers stand with a French woman, who cheers and places a bunch of flowers on the uniform of one of the soldiers.
Armistice Day celebration in Paris. French and American soldiers parade on streets of Paris celebrating end of World War 1. Men carry the United States flag and French flags. Group of parading Americans carry a young woman on their shoulders. Some women and children seen marching and dancing with the soldiers. A Parisian lamplighter begins descending his ladder, after lighting a streetlamp, but goes back up again to retrieve his wine bottle. Puffs of smoke waft over dense crowd, waving and shouting.
Paris Air Show, Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France. United States Air Force Aerial Demonstration Team ("Thunderbirds") performs, flying their F-4E aircraft. Thunderbird ground crew watches the demonstration team perform precision formation flying.
Paris Air Show. Spectators in exhibit area view aircraft. Of particular note are the British-French supersonic transport plane (Concorde) and the Soviet supersonic transport plane (TU-144) seen fairly close to each other. Soviet Aeroflot aircraft including TU-144, IL-62, YAK-40, AN-24, TU-154, MIL V-12, MI-8, IL-76 seen in the exhibition. U.S. Navy aircraft P-3C, A-7 D attack aircraft, transport aircraft C-5A, A-300 Airbus model are some of the planes in exhibition. Crowds are seen streaming through the cargo hold of the giant Lockheed C-5A. Galaxy aircraft of the 437th Military Airlift Wing of the United States Air Force Military Airlift Command.
Traffic comes across the Arlington Memorial Bridge (2912 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20418, United States). Trees in the background. Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, USA) in Washington DC in the background. The streets are wet. Cars have their lights on and windshield wipers due to rain. Cars and buses on the streets.
Views of rides and entertainment on the Midway at the Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, United States. An amusement ride called 'The Funnies'. African American jazz musicians and dancers perform a minstrel show in costume and blackface on stage at the "Old Plantation." A covered ride called "Bozo" spins around a track. Fire eater performs. Moving robotic animatronic models of a dinosaur and a bear at the Sinclair Dinosaur Exhibit. Children stand near them. Night views of the Exposition and fireworks show. Fireworks at night.
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