Models wearing designer dresses in Paris, France. A few models wearing dresses designed by designers in Paris. One of the model's dress being adjusted. Another model wearing a designer dress. The models wearing the designer dresses walk in a row on a path displaying the dresses. The models posing in front of a building. A few models posing on the terrace of a building. A garden and fountains in the background. The models pose wearing the designer dresses and hats.
French General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle returns to Paris, France during World War II. A crowd of the French civilians on a street as General Charles de Gaulle's car enters. Parisian motorcycle corps surround the car. The car en route along the Champs Elysees. Charles de Gaulle gets off the car amid cheers from people. He salutes a French officer standing in front of a line of personnel carriers. Officials and Charles de Gaulle walk past the line of personnel carriers and tanks and move towards the Arc de Triomphe. The crowd cheer the name of De Gaulle, celebrating the liberation of Paris.
The secret Free French headquarters in Paris during World War 2. Opening scene shows the Lion Of Belfort Statue, at Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, France. Pedestrians and cyclists are moving through the area. Next are views through the windshield of a car driving around the statue. It drives up a side street, and a passenger is let out. As the car drives away, the passenger enters a building, housing the secret headquarters of the Free French Forces of the Interior (FFI) and goes inside. He proceeds through some anterooms and down several flights of stairs deep into a subteranean room where he is admitted by a man wearing a white FFI armband. He delivers a paper message to one of two men sitting at a table. The information causes various members of the FFI in the headquarters to begin taking actions to plan a mission. A woman transmits the informtion and orders via a teletype machine.
Opening scene shows French General Charles de Gaulle and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill as they leave a French Headquarters building in Paris, France, after its liberation in World War 2.. It is snowing. An American soldier, bugler, is blowing a salute. Another U.S. soldier holds the door of a staff car open. Among those following Churchill and de Gaulle, is British Field Marshal Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. And (behind two French civilian officials), is French General Marie-Pierre Kœnig. Next, is seen an honor guard of American soldiers, rendering rifle salutes with right shoulder arms. Alternating Closeup glimpses of Churchill, de Gaulle, and company with those of the honor guard. Very close view of Churchill. Scene shifts to French military drum and bugle corps playing. Closeup of Churchill, de Gaulle, Brooke, and French General de Lattre, all saluting, and a French military color guard dipping colors in salute as others render rifle salutes. More views of French honor guard. Next, a jeep carrying General de Lattre, in front and Churchill and de Gaulle in the rear, passes by with occupants saluting. Glimpse from rear of French military honor guard. The jeep passing between troops in formation and a line of American Sherman tanks with their crews standing in front of their tanks. Views from various angles of the scene.
314th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Infantry Division of the United States Army entering Haguenau, France during World War 2. An M4A3(75) medium tank moves cautiously along street, keeping close to structures at side of road. Another medium tank is ahead in the background. The lead tank fires its gun. An M4A3(76) positioned in front of a house. Several infantrymen seen moving into position; one with an M1917 .30cal machine gun. A left side close up of an M4A1(75) tank moving slowly in the village. (Of note is the age of this particular tank, given the original running gear which was realized on the first version of this tank to see service in WWII.)
U.S. troops of the 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Division, entering Haguenau, France, during World War 2. An M4 Sherman tank moves slowly along the village road. Infantrymen check individual houses for German snipers. A different view of M4 moving along the road. Another parked at side of road, ahead. U.S. soldiers entering a French house with part exposed timber construction. Troops looking out through shell holes in side of a house. A black dog with two U.S. soldiers as they walk beside a picket fence..
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