X Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva (1929)

Footage №102906, 1 footage, Duration: 0:11:19

Scene №1 X Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva

Police and gendarmerie officers before the start of the 10th Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva.

Delegation cars.

Sign for the press room.

Assembly participants walking to the meeting.

Assembly Chairman J.G. Guerrero in front of the entrance to the palace.

The representative of France walking to the meeting.

The Spanish representative De Leon at the entrance to the building.

The arrival of the German delegation led by G. Stresemann.

The German delegates walking to the assembly meeting.

The deputy representative of Romania, Elena Vacarescu, gets out of the car.

The face of a gendarme.

The representative of France gets out of the car.

State Secretary of the German Foreign Ministry von Schubert gets out of the car.

The face of a gendarme.

A gendarme shows an elderly woman a roundabout way.

The participants in the meeting enter through a side door.

Bernard Shaw walking to the assembly meeting.

The arrival of the delegates to the assembly meeting, cars approaching.

Photo reporters pass through the rope fence.

Panorama of the empty assembly hall.

The rostrum and the presidium table (top).

The participants of the meeting enter the hall.

The participants of the meeting discuss current issues within the delegations.

Belgian Foreign Minister Imans P. before the meeting.

Ethiopian delegates in the hall before the meeting.

Prince of Persia Reza Pahlavi talks to the delegates.

Delegates enter the hall.

French Prime Minister Briand A. enters the hall.

The participants of the assembly meeting in the hall talk to each other, greet each other.

The participants of the meeting in the hall and in the boxes.

Briand heads to the rostrum.

Briand, standing on the rostrum, opens the meeting of the 10th Assembly of the League of Nations.

The participants of the assembly listen to Briand, Briand continues his speech.

Views of the meeting hall during Briand's speech, faces of the assembly participants.

The participants of the meeting applaud, stand up from their seats, head for the exits from the hall.

Stresemann addresses the assembly participants.

The assembly participants listen to Stresemann.

Representatives of the League of Nations member countries during the discussions during the break in the meeting.

Representatives of Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands talk to each other, discuss current issues.

The German representative Breidscheid and the Norwegian representative Lange discuss current issues in international relations.

Conversation between the Belgian and Dutch representatives during the discussion in the meeting hall.

Speech by one of the assembly participants.

The face of the French representative Sipel.

Sipel descends from the rostrum.

Nansen F. speaks from the rostrum of the assembly.

The delegates applaud.

Speech by Lord Cushenden.

The French representative Paul-Boncourt speaks from the rostrum, views of the meeting hall.

The delegates line up to speak.

Delegates in the hall during the break in the meeting.

The assembly participants head for the exit from the hall.

Panorama of the empty meeting hall.

Gendarmes and policemen at a crossroads in Geneva.

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Palace of Nations in Geneva, the President of the 10th Assembly of the League of Nations Guerrero participates in the ceremony.

Installation of the foundation plaque.

Spectators at the ceremony.

A notch in the foundation stone.

Faces of the assembly members.

Installation of the stone.

Guerrero strikes the stone with a hammer three times.

Briand is among the participants in the ceremony.

The assembly members disperse at the end of the ceremony, saying goodbye to each other.

Porters take out the luggage of the departing diplomats on a cart.

Loading the luggage into a van.

The coachman sits on the box, the van with the luggage leaves for the station.

People and public transport on the streets of Geneva.

Delegates at the station before leaving.

Palace employees remove the national flags of the League of Nations member countries from the balcony.

Persons:

Guerrero, Jose Gustavo -- Salvadoran politician, lawyer, diplomat

Stresemann Gustav Ernst - German statesman and politician, diplomat

Vacarescu Elena - Romanian and French writer, poetess, diplomat

Schubert Carl von - German statesman and politician, diplomat

Shaw George Bernard - Irish writer, playwright, public figure

Imans Paul is a Belgian statesman, politician and diplomat.

Pahlavi Reza Shah - Shah of Iran

Brian Aristide is a French statesman and politician.

Breidscheid Rudolf -- German politician

Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian polar explorer, zoologist, oceanographer, political and public figure.

Paul Boncourt Augustin Alfred Joseph - French statesman and political figure

Calendar:

09.1929

Shooting locations:

Switzerland

Seasons:

Autumn

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