SPAD fighter planes of French Air unit fly over German lines at Chaux in France during World War I. A plane flying low near the ground. Formation of Spad biplanes in flight. Several men seen standing as a man in the basket of an observation balloon rises up. A French pilot getting into the cockpit of a SPAD fighter plane. Change to a different pilot seated in the cockpit posing for the camera.
Grand Prize Fair officially opened by President Doumergue at Versailles in France. The President surrounded by national officials, agriculture and breeding experts. President Doumergue displays interest in the exhibits. Cattle and swine also exhibited. Farm stock pass in review before notables at the exposition grounds.
Early flight airshow dare devil Clem Sohn in his wingsuit at Vincennes in France. He was known as 'Batman'. Planes in the background. He demonstrates flying with his ornithopter like wing suit. Clem Sohn then jumps in front of 55,000 spectators from 650 feet high in the sky. He plunges to death as his parachute fails to open.
Ceremonies to honor the King Leopold III of Belgium in Paris, France. French President Albert Lebrun and King Leopold III officiate and unveiled the memorial in the Cours-la-Reine, near the Place de la Concorde, Paris, to his father, the late King Albert I. The ceremony is climaxed by a military parade. A huge crowd gathers. Other members of the Belgian Monarchy are present.
Paris Air Show. Ground crew of the U.S. Air Force Aerial Demonstration Team waits and directs arriving F-4E aircraft as they taxi to parking spaces on ramp, at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Swalm, Thunderbird leader leaves F-4E and greets other Thunderbird pilots, who run to join him on the tarmac. Thunderbird ground crewmen make post flight inspections.
Several people seated in a nightclub in Paris France. Bottles of alcoholic beverages are kept on the tables. American fan dancer, Joan Warner, appears to run from the room, naked. Joan Warner, sitting in her dressing room, receives a summons from French authorities. She sorts through a number of newspaper clippings about herself. She comes down the steps of Court Building accompanied by her lawyer and reporters. Judges of French 10th Correctional Chamber. Joan Warner emerges from offices of the Commissariat de Police, holding a slip of paper. Joan Warner and another woman enter a taxicab at a French train station, and drive away.
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