Title:FRANCE ACTUALITES and ACTUALITES MONDIALES - items [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 1096
Other titles:ACTUALITES MONDIALES and FRANCE ACTUALITES - items [Alternative Title]
Summary: I. Italian Navy escorts supply convoy for German forces in Western Desert. Commentary predicts that stability of front in North Africa will soon be altered, as Italian battleships protect ships bringing armaments for Rommel's forces. Pzkpfw IVs and IIIs are unloaded in port and head along road past palms to front.
II. French children evacuees from Allied bombings of Brest and Boulogne Billancourt are welcomed by reception families in Lyon and Annemasse. (France Actualités No 7, 19/2/1943)
III. Opening of French Aviation Week on 4 April (1942 ?) is intended to demonstrate France's progress under Pétain in commercial flying. View of Junkers Ju 52 lookalike.
IV. Flashback to winter skating in Place de la Concorde. Parisians in the Bois de Boulogne and fashionable women at first Sunday's racing at Auteuil mark start of Spring. (Actualités Mondiales No 86, 20/3/1942 ?)
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Alternative Title:ACTUALITES MONDIALES and FRANCE ACTUALITES - items [Alternative Title]
