The Naval Battle of the Flowers is held on Carnival Monday (Lundi Gras) at Port de la Santé in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. Pointus boats adorned with flowers travel through the Port while passengers on the boat throw flowers at spectators. The crowd throws flowers back in return.
Large crowd gather during a rugby match in Paris. Players get into the field. Welsh Rugby team beats France by 11-0. Views of the teams playing rugby and some player injuries. Crush of rugby fans packed in stadium and surging forward causes injuries to some spectators who are taken away by police for medical care.
French wine market workers take part in annual wine keg championship in Vincennes, France. Spectators in stands. The participants roll wine barrels on end around a racecourse. M Farge is the new champion after the barrel sprint.
Paul Doumer and Gaston Doumergue come down the stairs at Champs Elysees during inauguration of Doumer as head of the Republic in Paris, France. They sit in the car and it goes. Presidential motorcade on horses and bicycles. Eiffel Tower in the background. Doumer stands and addresses people at historic Palace of the Senate.
Animation introduces five African American artists. Segment focuses on sculptures by Barbara Chase Riboud. Barbara drives a car on roads of Paris, France. Views of traffic in traffic circles, fountains, and landmark buildings of city of Paris in the early 1970s. Many cars and buses on road. Barbara comes out of a shop "Nickel Chrome" and talks to a man who has finished polishing one of her works of art. Barbara at a room takes out her coat. Various sculptures in the room. Barbara works on a sculpture and shapes it. Barbara stands near a furnace. Two men work with molten and hot iron. Barbara picks up her two children from a bilingual international school of Paris. Children sit in car. Barbara at her sculpture workshop. She walks in it. She examines sculptures.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin) and his wife Oona O'Neill at the Societe des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques at Paris in France. Officials greet and welcome them. Press photographers capture the moment. Charles Chaplin emerges from his car and walks towards the hall amidst a crowd of cheerful supporters. Chaplin waves and greets the crowd. A number of cars parked alongside the road can be seen. Security detail is present to manage the big crowd at the venue. 1951
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