An Alitalia- Linee Aeree Italiane (LAI) Douglas DC-6B aircraft (I-LEAD) crashes into three houses shortly after take-off from Paris-Orly Airport. The wrecked parts of the burned aircraft. Two men stand near the wreckage. Several views of the wrecked aircraft parts.
American fliers who escaped internment in Switzerland, pose in front of a C-47 aircraft at Annecy Airfield in World War 2. They wear clothes provided by sympathetic civilians, and kid about the way they fit. They are accompanied by a Free-French Commandant (equivalent to U.S. rank of Major) who wears rank insignia on shoulders of his uniform and the Cross of Lorraine and rank insignia on his black beret.
Puppet masters from the famous Salzburg Marionette Theater perform in Paris during their debut tour. Puppeteers controlling marionette puppets. Marionette puppets dancing on stage. A ladybug marionette. Puppeteers are seen from behind. Puppets in theater.
View of a garden outside a house in Paris during Victory Day celebrations after World War II. Two puppies playing in the garden.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh acclaimed by French crowd at night, in Paris, after his solo non stop Trans Atlantic flight. Crowd of Parisians estimated at more than a hundred thousand turn out to greet him at Le Bourget Air Field. Part of the crowd begins to run to an illuminated building where Lindbergh appears on a on a window sill and waves at the crowd. The next day, French President Gaston Doumergue stands with Lindbergh on a balcony, where they wave the French tricolor. They converse, framed by American flags (one of which, almost falls from the balcony). Lindbergh holds and waves both the American flag and the French tricolor. Charles Lindbergh stands precariously on a window ledge and waves to French crowds.
German military officers stand about in front of a small rustic shelter. Inside view shows a large round table and chairs. French General Charles Huntziger, head of the French delegation, Rear Admiral Maurice R. Leluc, and French Ambassador Leon Noel step from a railroad car and are directed to the shelter by a German officer. They enter the shelter and a curtain is drawn behind them.. Huntziger and Leluc walk to the railroad car and climb aboard. View inside the car where principals are seated around a table. Huntziger signs documents. Remainder of film shows formations of clouds, numerous Nazi flags waving, a large church building, bells ringing, and a chorus singing in background.
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