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Reporters interview and take photographs of French Prime Minister Maunoury, President Coty, and dignitaries standing outside the Élysée Palace in Paris
North facade of the Palais Bourbon (126 Rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris, France) in Paris, France. Vehicles pass on the street in front of the building. Cameramen stand on the street outside the building. Dignitaries come out of the Élysée Palace in Paris. French Prime Minister Maurice Bourges Maunoury, French President Rene Coty and the Members of the Government pose after their meeting to discuss the Algerian War at the Élysée Palace.
People gather at the railroad station in London to greet Metro-Vickers Affair staff returning home after Soviet spy-trials
Freed British industrial engineers and company executives from Metro-Vickers return home to London, England following show trial in the Soviet Union that alleged their involvement in espionage and so-called wrecking activities at Soviet electrical power stations. People at Liverpool Street station in London, England. A railroad train arrives on the railway track. Crowd greets Metro-Vickers Moscow Chief Allan Monkhouse and engineer Charles de Nordwall (C.H. Nordwall) on their return after the trials. Monkhouse and Nordwall pause and appear to talk to press. British police bobbies stand by train car. Nordwall and his wife enter a waiting car along with one other woman. View of Great Eastern Hotel entrance in background as car drives away.
America mobilizes for World War I and confronts demobilization afterwards
Opening scene shows Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Newspaper swirls into the image, with headline announcing their assassinations. Glimpse of railways guns firing. View of a ship's bow as it sinks beneath the ocean, is covered by newspaper headline announcing the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, by a German submarine. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk. Newspaper headline reads: "U.S. Declares War !!" U.S. soldiers marching in Washington, DC, with U.S. Capitol building in background. Newspaper announces: "Yanks are Coming!" American General John Pershing on horseback leading a contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). American troops going "over the top" (charging out of their trenches) in France during World War 1. Troops firing French 75 artillery pieces at point blank range. A formation of Allied Airco (de Havilland) DH9 aircraft in flight. Bombs bursting near trenches on the front lines. Renault FT-17 tanks accompanying American infantry on the Western Front. Persons playing roles as employees in the Department of Labor when they served as the War Labor Administration in World War 1. Women in the War Labor Administration working with long paper rolls of personnel records. Women in various war effort endeavors including airplane and arms manufacturing. Men working in a wartime steel plant. Marchers and a band demonstrating for the rights of workers to organize. People celebrating the at the end of World War 1, by gathering in the streets, throwing tickertape, dancing in the streets and waving effigies of the Kaiser. Stern view of the U.S. Army Transport Ship, President Grant filled with American soldiers returning from France at the end of the war. Lettering on stern reads, "U.S.A.T. President Grant" (The ship, AP-29, was originally the German ocean liner Konig Wilhelm II, and seized from Germany on 6 April 1917.) Views of United States soldiers returning home, disembarking, and assembling on a wharf home on American soil. Department of Labor persons assisting returning soldiers and prospective employers. Views of workers on farms, and in factories.
French Army troops, in Artois, France, training to use artillery against aircraft
French soldiers training in Artois, France, shortly before World War I. French artillerymen wearing gas masks, are seen inside a bunker. One loads a powder charge into a Cannon de 75 modèle 1897 field gun (So-called French 75). Slate states (in Swedish): Calculating the distance to an airship or airplane is often a very tricky task. View of French soldier, in a field, looking through a telescope, and another, nearby, looking through binoculars. The latter raises a large horn (or megaphone) and sounds it. Camera pans to two soldiers using a range finder. Closeup of aiming adjustments on a French 75 field gun. Next, gun crewmen remove shells from a protected storage caisson, buried in the side of a deep trench and other gunners load a nearby gun. Slate states that Automobile cannons constitute a very practical and effective weapon in the battle against airships. An artillery piece is shown mounted on a vehicle chassis, being maneuvered by gunners. A brief glimpse of mirror specially designed to signal to aviators.
Spanish labor union members parade in Valencia, Spain, during period of the 2nd Republic
Opening scene shows Spanish labor Union supporters marching in Valencia, Spain, in 1936, under a large banner with initals C.N.T and A.I.T. printed on its top corners (Standing for Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores (AIT), respectively. The word: "Authores" (Authors) appears in large print on the banner. One marcher carries a large Spanish 2nd Republic flag with letters "A.I.T." on it. Next, closeups of uniformed band members playing instruments, are seen. Persons standing nearby raise their right fists in support of the Republican anti-fascist movement. Closeups of band musicians playing.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini view huge crowd from a decorated balcony of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy (WW2)
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini visit Florence, Italy. Soldiers in uniform and civilians gathered at the Piazza Della Signoria. Men blow trumpets with Florentine fleur-de-lis banners in the Piazza della Signoria. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini look out at the crowd from a decorated balcony in the Palazzo Vecchio (P.za della Signoria, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy). The German and the Italian flags on poles on the balcony. (World War II period).
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