Title:LES ACTUALITES FRANCAISES NO 37 [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 521
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Summary: French newsreel.
Description: No commentary. a) General de Lattre de Tassigny decorates American and French officers in Lyon on the anniversary of its liberation, then, with Mayor Herriot at his side, takes the salute at a marchpast by French, North African and American troops. Cardinal Gerlier is among the large crowd watching. b) Pumping out of the sunken de Grasse in the Gironde at Bordeaux. c) Ruins of Toulon waterfront and pumping out of ships of the scuttled French fleet including the Strasbourg and the training ship Condorcet. d) Jean Bart leaves Casablanca for Cherbourg for refitting at the end of August. e) Bull fight in Southern France. f) Minister of Air Tillon watches paratroops making training jumps from a platform. g) Giant carnival figures parade through a Belgian town. h) View of female organisation in discussion precedes scenes of women doing traditional jobs as shop assistants at the Galeries Lafayette, seamstresses, textile workers and telephonists as well as work recently opened to them by the war: stretcher-bearers, dentists, laboratory technicians, coal sorters and agricultural labourers. i) Induction of a new prelate at a Russian Orthodox church. j) Grand Prix de Paris motorcycle and car races watched by large crowds.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 521
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1945-09
Production Country: France
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Herriot, Edouard (person)
Gerlier, Pierre (person)
Lattre de Tassigny, Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de (person)
Tillon, Charles (person)
French Navy, Jean Bart (regiment/service)
Keywords: ceremonies, Belgian - display: carnival parade (object name)
ceremonies, French - display: marchpast (object name)
ceremonies, French - event-related (object name)
economics, French national - employment (object name)
operations, French maritime - salvage (object name)
recreation, French civilian - sport: Grand Prix de Paris (object name)
religion, Christianity - ceremonial, Russian: induction of prelate (object name)
ships, French naval - battleship: Jean Bart (object name)
ships, French naval - battleship: Strasbourg & [expended] (object name)
ships, French naval - cruiser: de Grasse & [expended] (object name)
ships, French naval - STR: Condorcet & [expended] (object name)
recreation, French civilian - sport: bullfight (object name)
training, French military - specialist: paratroop (object name)
Bordeaux, Gironde, France (geography)
Gironde (River), France (geography)
Lyon, Rhône, France (geography)
Morocco & Casablanca (geography)
(concept)
