French cinemagazine items including: 1. What is at stake in the French elections - The events leading up the dissolution of the French National Assembly and making ready for the new legislative elections. 2. Techniques - 765,000 volt circuit-breakers for the US. Near Paris, finishing touches on a revolutionary combustion-cell. 3. School for aces - Test Pilots’ School: routine coasting-tests for transport with feathered engines. The arts - Pierre-Yves Tremois, one of the best French engravers of the modern school.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
314919
Language
English
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → France - Description and travel
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → France - Social life and customs
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Cinemagazines
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Aeronautics - France
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artisans
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - France
Crafts & Visual Arts → Engraving
Crafts & Visual Arts → Workmanship
Documentary → Documentary films - France
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Elections
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → France - Politics and government
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Air pilots - Training of
History → France - History - 20th century
History → Technology and civilization
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Technology and civilization
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)