Paris Liberation - Part 2

Paris Liberation - Part 2 Paris liberation celebrations - Top shot American troops march in street - French women cheer - GIs amidst rejoicing crowd. GIs & crowd smoking in front of Hotel Scribe. GIs in jeep chatting with women and taking pictures and films. GI kissing French women. Throngs of people in street. GIs hiding behind jeep - sniper on roof - soldiers running to jeeps and civilians hiding round street corners. Pan up corner building. Car marked FFI (Free French) hurtles past with British and French flags. Soldiers pointing guns. Civilians running for cover. Bullet hole in shop window. CU pretty French woman with blue-white-red flowers in hair. GIs with bottles of champagne. Official? cars (de Gaulle’s?) past Place de la Concorde. French and American officers. De Gaulle out of car and shakes hands with general Patton. Patton and de Gaulle in stand. Parade - LS Champs Elysees with Arc de Triomphe in BG and military vehicles parade towards camera. Stand with flags. US troops parade. De Gaulle with American officers in stand - all salute. Jeeps parade on Champs Elysees. General Leclerc in stand. Tanks parade. Parade towards Concorde. Military vehicles and artillery. parade followed by bicycles. De Gaulle, Patton and other VIPs out of stand and salute. NB Use of this footage requires a credit as follows: “Includes footage from the George Stevens Collection at the Library of Congress”