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French signalman raises signal ball on a semaphore tower in France during World War I

French signalman raises large signal ball aloft on a semaphore tower at an airfield in France, during World War 1. One signal ball is already displayed on the tower, along with a flag and a weather vane. (WWI. WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027324
French Nieuport airplanes on an airfield in World War I

View from inside a hangar as a team of ground crewmen push an airplane outside, where a grass field is seen, filled with Nieuport airplanes. One taxis out for takeoff.

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027326
French soldiers prepare an observation balloon for flight and launch it during World War I.

French soldiers unroll the fabric of an observation balloon in a clearing in a wood, during World War 1. They stretch it out flat in all directions. Scene shifts to a soldier sitting in a depot surrounded by stacks of compressed gas cylinders. He connects a cylinder to a fabric duct directing gas to the balloon. Soldiers monitor and adjust the balloon fabric as it expands. The next scene shows many soldiers surrounding the balloon as it expands to almost full size. They hold tether lines to keep the balloon from escaping, as they walk it to a launching location. Next sequence shows the balloon rising with observers in two separate gondolas suspended below the gas bag. View from one of the gondolas, looking toward the ground. (WWI. WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027329
French army uses observer in a balloon to obtain information about the enemy in World War I

View from above of a French military officer observer in the gondola of a tethered balloon. French soldiers on the ground control a reel of telephone wire connecting to the observer, aloft. Scene shifts to the observer, again, who bends over a chart of the area On the ground, French officers communicate by phone to the observer and make notes about his observations.

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027330
French defenses against enemy aircraft in World War I.

French troops in trenches on lookout for enemy aircraft. They fire an elevated machine gun (Mitrailleuse) mounted on a fixed pedestal, at an ememy airplane. View of an antiaircraft machine gun hidden in a deep hole. Observation balloon being lowered to a landing site with assistance of many French troops on the ground. Basket carrying observers is seen. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027331
French observer in balloon parachutes to escape approaching German aircraft (not seen).

A French observation balloon aloft high in the sky near the front during World War 1. Suddenly the observer bails out of the gondola and parachutes to earth (presumably due to threat from German aircraft, that is not seen in the sequence). (WWI. WW1)

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027332
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