FRANCE LIBRE ACTUALITIES, NO. 1 Part 1

Description

Shows Ger. V-1 launching ramps. A Brit. plane forces a V-1 bomb to crash. Shows a Fr. fort in Fr. Morocco, Gen. de Gaulle conferring with a priest, Arab cavalry, and Legionnaires marching. Fr. officials greet an Arab chieftain. A hydro- electric plant in N. Africa is dedicated. Free Fr. troops wash, shave, and huddle around a fire in a snowy field. Ger. planes bomb Fr. children in a school yard. Shows barren Fr. grocery stores, Ger. officers in Paris, and refugee children on Fr.roads, praying at graves, sleeping in straw beds, around a Christmas tree, and embracing an old man.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Motion Pictures from the Free French Newsreels Program Series