A fashion show in Florence, Italy. Models display the ready to wear garments at the Pitti Palace (Piazza de' Pitti, 1, 50125 Firenze FI, Italy). Models wear oversized sunglasses. A model walks down the catwalk wearing a velvet gown by Pino Lancetti. A model with a hooped coiffure wears a coat by Emilio Pucci. Two Italian women talk to each other while watching the fashion show. A model displays a coat by Gregoriana, an Italian fashion brand. A model walks with a dog on the ramp. Models wear corkscrew hats.
The role of women in the United States Army. A sign reads ' WAC Bivouac area'. Women carry heavy packs and march. During 10 minute break, they sit on ground and talk. Women's Army Corps (WAC) personnel set up tents and line up for chow, eating from mess kits. Women play softball. A woman reads letter from home. A woman drinks from a canteen. Women exercise and do calisthenics. They learn unarmed defense tactics. WAC military police march in formation. A woman being interviewed. Women in classrooms being given career guidance. A woman works on the punch card machine. A man and a woman drafting. Women work in the kitchen. Women work in laboratories. A woman on X ray machine and a solider lying on the table. Dentists check soldier. A woman being commissioned as an officer. Women disembark from a ship. WAC assigned to Japan, Paris or Germany. Views of a Shinto shrine in Japan, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and people in Berlin walking through Brandenburg gate British Sector and heading to other side, as German police officers watch. Woman assists male officers in a meeting, as the men view early television screen. View of Patton tank on the move.
The role of women in the United States Army. A tent in snow. WAC maneuvers in arctic conditions.A woman soldier brings plates outside the tent. Women wash the plates. Women wear arctic protective gear. A woman wears skis. Women learn skiing. Women learn to wear ski shoes. A woman loads pack on the back of another woman. Women march on snow. Woman cook. Tokyo: Women site seeing. Woman in a hand rickshaw. Woman bargains with the shopkeeper. Paris: women walk in pairs. View of the Eiffel tower. Women view the statue of Venus de Milo. Women skiing. Women watch ice hockey. Germany: Women stationed near Garmisch-Partenkirchen ride in a mountain cable car and arriving at a mountain top station (this appears to be the wooden cable car from BadReichenhall to Predigstuhl Mountain, sometimes called the Grand Dame of the Alps). Women work in office. Women treat soldiers in dispensary. Nurse teaches soldier to walk. Woman take x ray of a soldier.
Exterior of night clubs Folies Bergere, Les Naturjistes, Lido and Casino de Paris. A night shot of Champs Elysees is seen. 1956.
Sanitation workers are seen at work on the streets of Paris. Shopkeeper carries large can of garbage to a trash collection truck on the street. Trash collectors pose behind their truck. Garbage truck drives along the Champs Elysee, with crew riding on back door. They are escorted by Paris policemen on bicycles. They pick up more trash at a stop, where they pause, as police wave people past them. The Arc de Triomphe can be seen in background.
French Army practices relocation of citizens in a civil defense exercise during the Cold War. Civilian participants seen climbing down from a truck. French military trucks equipped with long seats practice carrying citizens from Parts of Paris to safe locations, in a training exercise. Participants look at a large map posted at a park, and get instructions from French soldiers. The trucks are seen, filled with exercise participants, traveling about in the city, as military police direct the traffic. Traffic and trucks on roads with Hôtel des Invalides in background. The trucks display signs that say, (in French) 'The Army, serving the nation, will help you in times of need.'
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