WWI - 1917 - 1918, France: USA A.E.F. Signal Corps Photographic Activity -
Woman w/ group of young girls waiting on sidewalk, others into building (movie theater ?). 303rd Infantry Army band posing w/ instruments in street; civilians & children watch on sidewalk. LS large band playing in street / plaza town square. Boys & men holding hats, pan band playing.
18:50:26 CU boys waving hats at camera & from side view. Men in wide movie theatre entrance beneath sign w/ President Wilson’s picture: Comite de livre Or des Enfants de France au President Wilson.
18:51:01 Line of boys in coats & ties singing, applaud. LS crowd outside theatre. High Angle ? HA people leaving theater & filling sidewalk & street.
18:52:18 Children entering theater from each side.
18:53:13 HA of crowd in front of high striped awning, pan people leaving from theater & crowding into street blocking traffic of cars, trucks, wagons & carts, carriages.
18:54:08 HA MCU of French military officers, VIPs & civilians passing close to camera.
18:54:20 View of theater from across street w/ traffic & crowds. MCU well-dressed women, men & military.
18:54:59 MCU French flag in breeze on top of pole. US soldiers & French beside base of large US flag preparing to raise on top of hills or tall building at Signal Corps Headquarters in Vincennes. Flag raised in breeze.
18:55:47 Soldiers & women line up across street, waving; pan across cluster of US & French flags on staffs behind line of women w/ several US officers posing beside large floral bouquet.
18:56:42 Tall fence w/ covering, back of man in open narrow doorway w/ Arab & French officers walk out towards camera; civilian motion picture cameraman filming behind them.
18:57:18 MS Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi of Iraq posing on street. VERY good shot.
WW1 French Daily Life; Signal Corps Motion Picture Unit
NOTE: Faisal may have been in Paris for the 1919 Peace Conference. T.E. Lawrence was his translator (not easily seen in this reel).
NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. Good quality, has static markings in original.
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WWI - 1917 - 1918, France: USA A.E.F. Signal Corps Photographic Activity - Woman w/ group of young girls waiting on sidewalk, others into building (movie theater ?). 303rd Infantry Army band posing w/ instruments in street; civilians & children watch on sidewalk. LS large band playing in street / plaza town square. Boys & men holding hats, pan band playing. 18:50:26 CU boys waving hats at camera & from side view. Men in wide movie theatre entrance beneath sign w/ President Wilson’s picture: Comite de livre Or des Enfants de France au President Wilson. 18:51:01 Line of boys in coats & ties singing, applaud. LS crowd outside theatre. High Angle ? HA people leaving theater & filling sidewalk & street. 18:52:18 Children entering theater from each side. 18:53:13 HA of crowd in front of high striped awning, pan people leaving from theater & crowding into street blocking traffic of cars, trucks, wagons & carts, carriages. 18:54:08 HA MCU of French military officers, VIPs & civilians passing close to camera. 18:54:20 View of theater from across street w/ traffic & crowds. MCU well-dressed women, men & military. 18:54:59 MCU French flag in breeze on top of pole. US soldiers & French beside base of large US flag preparing to raise on top of hills or tall building at Signal Corps Headquarters in Vincennes. Flag raised in breeze. 18:55:47 Soldiers & women line up across street, waving; pan across cluster of US & French flags on staffs behind line of women w/ several US officers posing beside large floral bouquet. 18:56:42 Tall fence w/ covering, back of man in open narrow doorway w/ Arab & French officers walk out towards camera; civilian motion picture cameraman filming behind them. 18:57:18 MS Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi of Iraq posing on street. VERY good shot. WW1 French Daily Life; Signal Corps Motion Picture Unit NOTE: Faisal may have been in Paris for the 1919 Peace Conference. T.E. Lawrence was his translator (not easily seen in this reel). NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. Good quality, has static markings in original.