Antoinette Monoplane designed by French aircraft designer Leon Levavasseur on field. Aviator Hubert Latham with the plane. Men gathered around the monoplane.
World wide series of experiments carried out at French Alps during the Geo-physical Year. Mountain ranges in the background. Scientists set off huge blasts to study shock waves. Observers watch the effect of explosion. Water rise high due to explosions. equipment measure the shock waves. Recording instruments in a stone house are used.
A man sits in a unique three-wheeled single passenger motor vehicle. He demonstrates its maneuverability on the street. Cars and other traffic on the street are stopped to allow the demonstration. The machine includes an air-cooled internal combustion engine (like a motorcycle engine) and fuel tank, all mounted above the front wheel, which is capable of being rotated 360 degrees to allow complete maneuverability. The driver demonstrates this by driving backwards, without needing to use any reverse transmission.
Baroness de La Roche seated at the controls of an aircraft. Louis Paulhan's aircraft. A pilot in the cockpit. The plane takes off. An early model aircraft. Glenn Curtiss seated in cockpit shows the operation of foot controls. Aircraft taxis. George Chavez in the cockpit. A biplane with tapering wing pushed out of hangar in preparation for take off. Aircraft takes off, lands and taxis. Aircraft 'Sigma' built by Henri Farman flown by Eugene Renaux with a passenger. People observe the take off.
View of Paris Opera House. German occupation force soldiers mingle with French population, at metro station Opera, in Paris. Children are selling flowers. Automobiles on the street. Buildings in the background. (World War II period).
German occupied Paris, during World War II, around time of liberation of Paris. The Grand Palace (Grand Palais), a Free French stronghold, is set on fire by German troops under orders of German General Dietrich von Cholitz, Commander of the Paris Garrison. Dense smoke rises from the building. Clouds of smoke cover the top of the building. Shadow of trees in water.
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