Newsreel 'France torn by strikes'. Army guards and Police keeps vigil on labor strike in Lyon. Communists inspired striking workers at the Great Rail Center of Lyon. A train has been seen leaving. Empty trucks seen standing. Snowfall in Paris.
A festival in Cannes, France. Crowds watching parade.Several bands parade and play, including some representing French colonies, one in berets, another in yarmulkes, and yet, another, in fezes, carrying a Moroccan symbol on a pole .View of horse track and a horse race. Women in costumes on carriages drawn by horses along street. Flowered covered floats of various kinds,including one of an airplane, with boys riding in it. Views of palm lined streets and waterfront in Cannes. A woman in traditional hat of French Indochina.
Several men and women enter the Colonne de Juilliet (July Column) at the center of the Place de la Bastille, in Paris, France. View of the Spirit of Liberty Statue, sculpted by Auguste Dumont, atop the tower. Men and women emerge from internal stairs in the column and walk out onto circular balcony. A man with beard is setting up an instrument to measure the sway of the tower. He checks readings on the instrument. He discusses the action of the instrument with a woman. Another woman near railing looks down. The Eiffel Tower is visible in the distance. View of instrument plunger reacting to the tower's sway. A heavy woman enters the tower. As she walks about on the balcony, the sway meter responds strongly.
A clearing in the woods, Compiegne, France. German Honor Guard at attention, and their band plays. French Government plenipotentiaries, General Charles L.C. Huntzinger,Ambassador Noel, Rear Admiral Maurice R LeLuc, Air Corps General Georges Parisot, and Air Corps General Jean-Marie Joseph Bergeret, accompanied by German Quartermaster General , Lieutenant-General kurt von Tippelskirch, and German Colonel Thomas, walk towards a railroad car. Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering are seated at a table. Following behind their German escorts, General Huntzinger salutes Hitler and the German delegation, with Admiral Le Luc, at his side. View of General Keitel's hands holding document as he reads preamble to the Armistice Agreement. View of three German bombers in flight.
New York Daily News, August 26, 1944, headline reads 'Nazis yield, Paris freed'. United States soldiers carry American flag on a tank into Paris during World War II. Celebrating French population cheer on Allied soldiers after the withdrawal of German forces from the French capital. Aerial view of huge crowd near The Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France).
The Duke of Windsor Prince Edward VIII and his wife Duchess Wallis attend a benefit French festival at Riviera Resort in Cannes, France. A huge crowd seated for the festivities. The crowd watches a new dance 'Lambeth Walk'. Other dances take place. Fire works in the sky.
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