Women leaders of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). French women patriots Marquis de Chabannes La Palice and Madame AC Staehling. Both women being interviewed by several men. The women seated at tables. They smoke cigarettes while giving the interview. The interviewers seated around the two women.
View of the old Boston Harbor. Fishermen de-icing the fishing boats at Boston, United States.
Crew aboard U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677), load and practice firing at a floating target. Crew fires deck guns, launches torpedoes and depth charges, and fires "hedge hog" bomb clusters. Shells hit water surface and explode. Aerial view of large explosions in water. (World War II period).
Casino de la Playa Orchestra performing at the Casino La Playa in Havana Cuba. Various musical instruments are played and the orchestra is led by conductor Guillermo Portela . Cuban dance music in which singer Miguelito Valdes, here seen playing the maracas, is featured. (Later, in 1940, Valdes was hired by Xavier Cugat as a singer.) People seen sitting behind the musicians. Nighttime illuminations on buildings. Patrons dining and dancing.
Passengers boarding and leaving the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet Steamship "Koutoubia" in Tangier harbor, Morocco. Brief glimpse of group of Spanish loyalists hurriedly boarding, to return to Barcelona. Arriving passengers slowly disembarking. Spanish loyalist passengers boarding. Officials checking passenger credentials. Smoke billows from ship's stack as it moves from dock, with passengers on deck waving.
French President Charles De Gaulle in England. The train arrives on platform. Officials stand aligned on platform. Queen of United Kingdom Elizabeth Alexandra Mary shakes hand with president and his wife. They meet Prime Minister Harold McMillan. President meets other officials. They leave the platform and get on a horse chariot. Crowd stands besides road. A woman clicks picture. President waves. A girl watches. The chariot reaches the Buckingham Palace. President and Queen Elizabeth wave from balcony. Musicians play music. Firework at night. Sailors watch. Nuns watch the firework show.
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