Newsreel Eclair №31321 (1939)
Reel 1
0:11:27Eclair №31321 (1939)
Reel №1
France.
League of Nations.
Briand's speech at the League of Nations.
A plane is flying.
They are waiting at the airport.
They are driving in cars.
Newsboys are selling newspapers.
Map of Poland.
Polish soldiers are marching.
Polish soldiers at the Peace Mass.
The French government is calling up reservists.
They are receiving armored vehicles, food, letters.
Great Britain.
Soldiers saying goodbye to their families.
A steamship is sailing.
Holland - soldiers are boarding a train.
Belgium - soldiers are saying goodbye to their families at the station.
London.
They are digging trenches in the streets, and cars are carrying sand.
Paris.
Parisians are receiving gas masks.
Children's gas masks are put on children, and they burst into tears.
A boy is walking with his mother and with a gas mask over his shoulder.
Cardinal Verdier is praying for peace in the Sacre Coeur Church.
The Turkish ambassador lays flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
France.
Great Britain.
USA. President Roosevelt.
A cannon fires.
September.
War in Poland.
France.
Mobilization announced.
French soldiers are marching.
Children are being sent from Paris.
Aircraft factory.
Aircraft assembly.
Several speeches by Hitler about how he will respect the Treaty of Versailles - German soldiers occupy the Rhineland, about how there are no claims against Austria - Austria is annexed, about how there are no territorial claims in Europe - German troops occupy the Sudetenland, and then Czechoslovakia, about how he will not conclude an agreement with the USSR - Ribbentrop returns from Moscow after concluding a non-aggression pact, assuring that he will not attack Poland - the military in Poland.
Horse attack of Polish reiters France.
Paris.
Notre Dame Cathedral, Madeleine Church, Arc de Triomphe.
England declares war on Germany /newspaper headlines/.
German troops, ships.
Daladier speaks on the radio about the beginning of the war against Germany.
The French listen to his speech.
French troops are marching.
Maginot Line.
Naval guns are firing.
Airplanes, tanks, colonial troops.
Rude's high relief "Marseillaise" on the Arc de Triomphe
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