French newsreel (1903-1912)

A girl with a fishing rod on the bank of a pond in a park.

A woman in a hat and fur coat on the bank of a pond.

A mini-train rides through the park.

Women choose books in a second-hand bookshop on a Parisian street.

Carriages and cars decorated with flowers drive along a Parisian street during a festive procession.

Cyclists with pyramids of flowers mounted on their bicycles ride along the street.

A covered carriage with passengers on the imperial stops.

Smoke is lowered from the imperial by men.

Festively dressed people walk onto the Longchamp racecourse in 1911. View of one of the stands of the racecourse.

Horse racing at the Longchamp racecourse.

A mass race along the racecourse track.

One of the participants in the race accepts congratulations.

The face of one of the athletes.

People at the entrance to the racecourse territory.

Fans in one of the stands of the stadium during a match.

A fragment of a football match.

Football players posing for a photographer.

The face of an elderly cyclist.

A cyclist next to his bicycle.

Preparing a car for the start before the start of a car race.

The car is manually rolled to the start.

Racing cars go through sections of the distance and around turns.

Hot air balloons on the airfield in Orly (panorama).

Balloonists in the basket of one of the balloons.

A wedding on one of the streets of Paris.

People on the street of one of the resorts, resort entertainment.

Olive harvesting.

Windmill in Montmartre.

Movement of horse-drawn carriages and cars, pedestrians crossing the street.

A sign indicating the route on the roof of an omnibus.

View of an omnibus.

Movement of horse-drawn and car transport on the streets of Paris.

View of the statue of Marianne on the Place de la Republique, pedestrians and horse-drawn transport on the square.

Entrance to an outdoor cafe.

Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt demonstrates the parachute suit he invented on February 4, 1912. A view of the Eiffel Tower from the bottom up.

Reichelt stands on the parapet of the lower tier of the Eiffel Tower with his parachute on, and jumps from the parapet.

Reichelt falls from the Eiffel Tower with an unopened parachute.

Inspection of the crash site.

Police and spectators carry the body of Reichelt, who crashed to his death.

People on the English coast of the English Channel await the arrival of Louis Bleriot's plane on July 25, 1909. Bleriot's plane flies over a field.

A sailor signals a flag from the roof of a house.

Bleriot near the wreckage of his plane.

Bleriot is given a ceremonial welcome in Paris.

People surround Bleriot's car.

The frame of Bleriot's plane is carried triumphantly down a Paris street.

The flight of the Farman plane over a racetrack.

Applauding spectators in the VIP seats.

A postcard depicting European monarchs and presidents at one table.

French President Emile Loubet and his entourage leave the palace.