An exhibition of Électricité de France (EDF) in Paris, France. A large crowd gathers. A woman demonstrates an electro-magnetic field. A tray is suspended in mid-air. A man takes off his glasses in disbelief. Eggs are fried on the electro-magnetic tray. People watch and eat eggs cooked from an electro-magnetic tray.
Scenes of New York City night clubs, during the "Roaring 20's," beginning with the relatively sedate Versailles Club, on 50th Street, where Rudy Vallee and his musical group play for patrons dancing. Rudy Vallee is seen playing the saxophone. He was so popular, the club was renamed 'Villa Vallee'. Wealthy businessmen gathered at the night club. The views then shift rapidly, in a montage of scenes showing party goers, flappers, and increasingly wilder antics in night club and speakeasy locations throughout New York City. Champagne bottle being opened. (This was illegal. National prohibition was still in force.) A singer performs. A man smoking a cigar. An artist plays his trumpet. A band of musicians perform. A couple waves their hands at the performance. A girl artist performs a dance. A scantily clad girl comes from behind stage curtains and performs in a burlesque show. Girls perform dance in a follies type act and balloons thrown up in the air. Fast montage of wild partying and raucous behavior with streamers and balloons flying.
United States Army Air Forces Martin B-26 Marauders, a World War II twin-engine medium bomber, fly over targets in Germany. An outline of a single 50mm caliber machine gun located at the waist position. Enemy targets on the ground burn and black smoke rising. Several bombs dropped on the ground. Smoke rises from the German farmland. A few B-26 Marauders fly above the German landscape. A B-26 in flight over the Rhine River.
Construction of the Crocodile Highway Pile Bridge in Wesel, Germany during World War II. Bulldozers and a pile driver move down a hill towards the site of the newly constructed bridge. Soldiers lay down logs in proper order for the flooring of the bridge. They nail the floor of the bridge under construction. The soldiers use air hammers to nail down. Few other soldiers carry pile towards the construction bridge site. A pile driver moves along a road at the newly constructed bridge site. A roller rolls down the ground and levels it for the bridge construction.
U.S. troops of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) wearing gas maskes as they occupy trenches on the Western Front, in France, during World War 1. One soldier using a large hand-held "Ayrton" fan to clear lingering gas from a trench. A shell bursting in air above a fort, as a French FT 17 tank moves across the area. American infantry in gas masks, firing rifles from a trench, as gas drifts over them. A camouflaged French rail gun firing from a railroad siding. Two other views of French rail guns firing. Smoke rising from a nearby shell burst. More views of AEF troops firing rifles from trenches during gas attack. Soldiers moving across no-man's land as shells burst. A mammoth explosion from a demolition charge or siege mortar shell. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
French Forces of the Interior (FFI) at the Liberated Paris in France. General Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle ,General Marie Pierre Koenig and General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque and other officials on a Parade. The French civilians raise hands,cheer and applauds. Officials salute the crowd gathered. Crowd smiles and wave hands in air. Children clap hands as the Generals move along with the officials. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) men ride on armored vehicles down the Champs Elysees. French armored vehicles pass along the crowd. The Arc De Triumph. General De Gaulle pays homage at Tomb of Unknown Soldier. (World War II period).
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