AMERICAN ARMY STUDENTS AT FRENCH SCHOOLS----SPRING OF 1919 Reel 4 · Part 3

Description

Reel 1, Gen. Pershing arrives, inspects A.E.F. students, and dedicates the Univ. of Beaune. Students go to classes, cut wood, dig gravel, erect hangars to house lecture halls, and operate the school laundry. Gen. Rees greets Congressmen S.H. Dent, W.J. Fields, S.J. Nicholls, B.P. Harrison, C.P. Caldwell, D.R. Athons, W.S. Green, J.S. Crage, and H.E. Hull. Reel 2, delegates arrive for an educational conference at Beaune. Shows students at classes and on parade. Sec. of War Baker and Gen. Pershing inspect classrooms and address students. Students sightsee in Beaune. Shows the Univ. of Beaune agricultural bldgs. at Allerey. Students saddle and shoe horses, judge livestock, use tractors, and listen to Sec. Baker. Reel 3, soldiers sketch sculptor, and paint at the Sorbonne Univ. Sculptor Alfred Finot works in a Nancy studio. Shows drafting classes at the American Art Center in Bellevue. Students visit the Church of Notre Dame. Reel 4 shows street scenes in Nancy and the campuses of the Universities of Nancy and Besancon. Besancon students attend classes. Shows campus scenes of the Univ. of Dijon and street scenes in Dijon. The Congressional delegation visits the school.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Historical Films