World newsreel (1936-1939)

A French fashion designer surrounded by models wearing dresses from his new collection.

Dresses on the models, accessories for the dresses.

A demonstration of the designs on the dresses.

A church building in Devonshire, people in the church square.

Participants in the solemn procession carry the ark.

Cardinal Bourne, Bishop of Westminster, performs the consecration of the church and anoints the entrance arch.

The ark is brought into the church.

Cardinal Bourne, leaving the church, blesses the assembled parishioners.

Cardinal Bourne's procession through the square, accompanied by church servants.

Meeting the Polish Foreign Minister, J. Beck, in London on April 4, 1939. Beck gets out of a car.

Beck at the entrance to the British Foreign Office.

The entrance to a building in Munich, decorated with the French and British flags, in September 1938. Hitler, Goering, and participants in the meeting in Munich during a conversation.

Refugees warm their hands on a hot barrel.

Cooking over a fire.

A cupboard in front of a tent in a refugee camp.

A woman raises the tent flap, children on a bed behind the flap.

Refugees walking along the road.

Czech children on stage talk about collecting aid for refugees.

The results of the humanitarian aid collection, written in chalk on a board hanging on the wall behind the children.

Karel Čapek's brochure about German emigrants.

Children at exhibition stands.

Toddlers bathing in basins at a kindergarten.

A boy washes his friend's back.

The signing ceremony of the Franco-German Declaration on December 6, 1938 in Versailles.

The foreign ministers of Germany and France, Ribbentrop and Bonnet, sit at the table.

Panorama and views of the hall during the ceremony.

Ribbentrop and Bonnet sign the text of the declaration.

Seals and signatures certifying the declaration.

Children ride a carousel at a fair.

People at a fair, including German soldiers.

Riding swings, carousels, and a Ferris wheel.

Production in a glassblowing workshop at an industrial plant in Czechoslovakia.

Polish citizens near the wreckage of a downed German plane in September 1939. Posters with slogans attached to the roofs of cars during a festive demonstration in Paris in 1936. Banners with slogans above the columns of a demonstration in support of the Popular Front.

Trade union representatives during a festive procession.

Marcel Cachin among the participants of the celebration.

Panorama of the rally and demonstration (above).

View of one of the columns of the demonstration (above).