| FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Meeting of French National Assembly at Palace of Versailles. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5348 |
| Catalog #: | 55512 | |
| Clip Number: | 55512-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1320 | |
| Timecode: | 01:02:28 - 01:03:58 | |
| Location: | Versailles, France | |
| Year Shot: | 1926 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | GOVERNMENT: France LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France, Versailles | |
| Description: | French National Assembly. Only called in times of National emergency - meets in historic Palace of Versailles. France L/S of Palace of Versailles. M/S of group of high ranking police / army officers walking through Palace gates. M/S of official looking men coming out of Palace doorway. Top shot of soldiers leading horses through cobbled square. Various shots of soldiers and horses assembled in square in front of Palace. Various L/Ss of the Palace, groups of men stand outside it. C/U of French president, Aristide Briand, and other men standing in front of glass door, a shady looking man in dark glasses stands behind them. Note: unclear what national emergency was - could be to do with fall of French franc on foreign exchanges and formation of coalition government under Raymond Poincare. | |
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