Several cars arrive at residence of President of French National Assembly (Hôtel de Lassay 128 Rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris, France). French political leaders enter the residence. Cameramen take photographs. Members of press interview the men. At a different entrance, a spokesman mentions French President Rene Coty, dissolution of the National Assembly and a new Constitution. A man walks out smoking a cigarette and carrying a newspaper. Reporters and photographers accost French President Rene Coty, as he leaves, dressed in coat and hat, wearing glasses, and carrying a cigarette in his right hand.
Trains operating through a railway station in France. A train at the railway platform. A man stands near a large steam locomotive engine. A freight train passes through the station. People stand on the railway platform. A train arrives. Engine and wheels of the train in view. Steam rises up from the train.
An American observation balloon in France during World War I. The observation balloon descends as it burns after being hit by an enemy plane. The burning balloon descends as it emits smoke. American soldiers fire anti aircraft guns at the enemy plane. The plane being hit and it descends. The enemy plane in a field with U.S. soldiers around it. The German pilot survived and is seen seated on the ground with an apparent facial injury, surrounded and captured by American guard.
People celebrate on the streets of New York after the Germans sign the armistice agreement ending World War 1 on November 11, 1918. People cheer and wave their caps. A French couple thanks Allied soldiers for rescuing them from Germany. Allied soldiers lined up in a field in France as U.S. General John J. Pershing decorates them. Troops of the United States 42nd Division march at a parade as General Pershing reviews them. Soldiers carry American flags at the parade.
A French propaganda dramatization about the events leading up to World War I. A French woman stands next to a sign that reads ' France '. A German officer holds up a note related to the Treaty of Frankfurt. He tears it in half, burns it and laughs. Wooden poles in shape of numbers for year 1914 seen burning in flames. End of dramatization. Actual footage of French soldiers erecting barbed wire fences. French soldiers move in a line down a ravine. Together with an American soldier, the French soldiers work in a field and uncover three unexploded bomb shells.
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi German Minister of Propaganda, drives out in the country to visit with Field Marshal Walter Model, at his field headquarters in France during World War II. Shown are his arrival and then his departure, with exchanges of Nazi salutes.
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