Allied nations participate in an athletic meet at the Pershing Stadium outside Paris. A boxing match between France and the United States. Flags on the flag pole. A crowd gathers at the stadium to watch the match. Match in progress. Men seated around the boxing ring. Spike Webb, trainer of the U.S. boxing team posing.
The Automobile Club's Grand Prix in Montlhéry, France. Europe's most fearless Formula One race car drivers compete in the Grand Prix. People gather to watch the race. Participants drive F1 cars on the track.
Riots due to Stavisky scandal in Paris, France. Exterior of a building. Soldiers on horses moving around the building. Mob gather and a riot breaks out against the political corruption disclosed by the Stavisky scandal.
Interiors of U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC) 57th Fighter Group officer's club at Alto Air Base, Corsica, France, during World War 2. Officers relaxing. They drink and sing as one man plays an accordion.They clink their glasses together from time to time, as the song calls for it.
Notables in Paris, France, at ceremonies before the Panthéon De La Guerre is packaged and shipped to the United States, where it would be shown in various places, beginning with Madison Square Garden, New York City, May 19, 1927. Raymond Poincaré, President of the French Council of Ministers, speaks in the building housing the Panthéon De La Guerre. The American flag in a holder to his left. Principal participants including Mrs. W.K Vanderbilt (Virginia Graham Fair Vanderbilt, aka "Birdie") are seen in front row chairs. Closeup of several French officials, including Marshal Philippe Pétain and Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister. Mrs. Vanderbilt cuts a cord to release the huge cyclorama painting, the world's largest, featuring 5,000 full-length portraits of prominent figures from World War I. Views of the painting.
Paris Air Show. Ground crew of the U.S. Air Force Aerial Demonstration Team waits and directs arriving F-4E aircraft as they taxi to parking spaces on ramp, at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Swalm, Thunderbird leader leaves F-4E and greets other Thunderbird pilots, who run to join him on the tarmac. Thunderbird ground crewmen make post flight inspections.
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