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Glenn H Curtis, an American aviator, sitting in his airplane, in Rheims France.

Development of early airplane. Glenn H. Curtis, an American aviator, sitting in his airplane 'Curtis Bamboo', in Rheims France. A man assists in launching his single engine, single tail aircraft. Man watches as the plane takes off.

Location: Rheims France
Date: 1938
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036827
Germans surrender during World War II as General Jodl sign papers at the headquarters of Allied forces in Rheims, France.

Germany surrenders in Rheims, France during World War II. Nazi General Alfred Jodl arrives at the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. General Jodl and others enter the building. U.S. General Walter B. Smith, Allied Chief of Staff and other officers at a desk. German General Jodl signs the surrender papers. General Smith also puts his signature on the papers. The surrender document with the signatures of the two Generals. Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower smiles. He holds two pens in a V sign.

Location: Rheims France
Date: 1945, May 14
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059043
American aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss prepares to fly his aircraft in Rheims, France in 1909.

American aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss in Rheims, France in 1909. Curtiss sitting at the controls of his aircraft. Men assist in starting the engine of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis on a field.

Location: Rheims France
Date: 1909
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075729
President Woodrow Wilson and other delegates leaving Notre Dame cathedral at Rheims in France during Paris Peace Conference.

United States President Woodrow Wilson during his visit for the Paris Peace Conference. He comes out of the Notre Dame cathedral in Rheims. He walks past the disrupted building of the cathedral. He is accompanied by other French delegates. Large crowd is gathered all around the cathedral to get a glimpse of the President. Outer view of cathedral and the area around the cathedral is seen.

Location: Rheims France
Date: 1919, January 26
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026957
Aviation history; historic early flight scenes; first hand accounts from persons who knew and worked with the Wright brothers.

Views of traffic on a city street around the turn of the 20th century. A mix of horse and buggies and motorcars and bicycles. People waiting for a trolley car. Reenactment of persons using an early telephone and of early filmmakers at work with camera on motion picture film. The Wright brothers home at 7 Hawthorne Street, West Dayton, Ohio. The Wrights' former housekeeper, Carrie Grumbach, recalls December 17, 1903, a telegram arriving about the Wright brothers successful first powered flight. Glimpse of Wright brothers machine shop. Charlie Taylor, who had worked in their shop, speaks of being pleased at their accomplishment. View of the Wrights flying gliders at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Charlie Taylor describing how he machined and built the motor for the Wright brothers airplane. Glimpse of that motor or a facsimile. Men positioning the Wright brothers airplane for launching, and French citizens gathered to watch a demonstration of their airplane in France. French aviation pioneer, Henri Farman with two other men in his Voisin-Farman I airplane. They begin takeoff. Closeup of Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumont. Other early aircraft in flight. A Wright Flyer passing over the Fort Myer drill ground in Virginia. An Army balloon in the background. Retired United States Air Force Brigadier General, Frank P. Lahm, walks across the tarmac on an airport and speaks for interviewer (unseen). He speaks about the difficulty the Wright brothers had in convincing the U.S. Army of the value of their airplane. He tells that in December, 1907, Wilbur Wright was finally granted an interview with the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, which led to a contract, in 1908, with the Signal Corps. Moving imagesof Orville Wright and assistants bringing a Wright Flyer to Fort Myer, Virginia, to conduct flight trials for the Army. Views of the airplane being flown all around the area, watched by spectators. (This footage is a mix of 1909 footage where the aircraft shows two half-rounds of canvas in the front elevator, and 1908 footage, taking off and flying, where the aircraft has a single half-round of canvas in the front elevator.) After landing on the 9th of September, 1908, then, Lieutenant Lahm, accepts Orville Wright's offer to fly with him. Lahm climbs aboard the airplane, sits next to Orville Wright, and they are seen taking off and flying about for six minutes and forty seconds. (Lahm is the first. military officer to ever fly in an airplane.) The next scene shows the wreck of a Wright Flyer, in which Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge was killed and Orville Wright injured, on September 17, 1908.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068445
American aviator Glenn Curtiss flies an aircraft in Rheims, France in 1909.

The history of aviation. American aviator Glenn Curtiss at the controls of his first aircraft in Rheims, France in 1909. The aircraft starts to take off. Men stand in the foreground.

Location: France
Date: 1930
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070416
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