SCENES IN FRANCE Part 2

Description

Summary: CONTRE LE BALCHEVISME: French general inspecting soldiers. Sequence: interior of church as they hold funeral services. Exterior, priest follows behind casket. Casket is lowered into grave. Sequence: crowds in native dress listening to address by some politician. French civilian addressing crowd. LS, military band playing. SUR LE FRONT BEL'LEST: Sequence: Infantry advancing; Germans firing medium artillery; Tiger tanks firing. Sequence: German tanks, all sizes, advancing and firing. LS, plane vapor trails in the sky. Night scenes: German artillery and rocket guns firing. Night scenes of multiple machine guns firing; flares bursting in sky. Sequence, wreckage in devastated town of Caen. LS, children playing in yard of large cathedral. D'ABORD VIVRE: Pierre Laval inspecting French troops; French troops passing in review.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities