Armistice Day Parade in Paris, France during World War II. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, French General Charles de Gaulle and Foreign Secretary Robert Anthony Eden watch Armistice Day Parade with the crowd at curb. French and American troops parade on the Champs Elysees. French civilians cheer and applaud. British troops on parade. Churchill and De Gaulle pass in car. Another car with Anthony Eden follow them. Churchill waves his cap. They walk to curb to great notables. Crowd follow them.
Armistice Day Parade in Paris, France during World War II. Bomber aircraft fly in formation. Churchill, French General Charles De Gaulle and others followed by notables walk away. The plaque at the Eternal Light. Mounted troops of the Republican Guard near the Arc de Triomphe. French cavalry on parade.
Victory Day celebrations in Paris, France after World War II. Three children pose with an American flag. American soldiers and French civilians along a street. Soldiers and French women ride on military vehicles around Rue de la Paix. A soldier plunges into a fountain at Place de la Concorde. Two American officers talk to each other.
Scenes in Paris, France during the 1937 "Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne" (International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life). Traffic on streets with Arc de Triomphe in the background. Eiffel Tower of Paris and grounds of the 1937 Expo in distance beyond. Crowd around Eiffel Tower and visitors riding on compact train cars or a transport trolley to view sites. Fountains of Gardens of Trocadero in distance. Camera pans from ground to top of Eiffel Tower. Next views show the Soviet Pavilion on left, with bronze statue "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" by Vera Mukhina. German Pavilion by Albert Speer is seen on right with Eagle symbol atop. Views of other pavilions and buildings at the Exposition. (Amateur home movie.)
American inventor Lee De Forest in his laboratory in Hollywood. American inventor Lee De Forest carrying out tests in his laboratory. He lights up a flame and uses an instrument.
Early historic aviation footage focusing on French aviation pioneers like Gabriel Voisin and Alberto Santos-Dumont. An early French float plane taking off and landing. Multiwing box-like aircraft. Two early French monoplanes. Early aircraft that set performance records. 1919 picture of Raymonde de Laroche, Baroness de la Rouche, world's first woman flyer. Additional scenes of historical French aircraft and a scene with American pilot Glenn Curtiss.
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