Language Tree
Basic Vocabulary in French
Kids will enjoy continuing their French lessons with French for Kids. It takes your child on an unforgettable learning journey with Pénélope and her cuddly French puppy, “Pezi”. Along the way, your child will learn words and phrases...
Language Tree
Introducing Yourself in French
Learn French effortlessly! From the leader in language instructional videos for children, Language Tree introduces French to kids in a way that engages them from start to finish. Blending 3D animation, sing-along songs and adorable...
Bridgeman Arts
Old man carries an advertisement placard by the Seine. France, 1960
Clip 1 from the 1960 French film 'Au Coeur de la Ville', about an old man who rescues a young girl from suicide. An old man with a sandwich board walks by the River Seine in Paris.
Bridgeman Arts
Scientists working with microscopes and close-ups of organisms. France, 1940s
Clip 3 from the 1940s French film 'Au Dela Du Visible', exploring scientific work undertaken at the Palais de la Decouverte (Discovery Palace) in Paris, and experiments relating to the theme of outer space. (1943-1944). Scientists...
Bridgeman Arts
Scientists looking at outer space from telescopes. France, 1940s
Clip 4 from the 1940s French film 'Au Dela Du Visible', exploring scientific work undertaken at the Palais de la Decouverte (Discovery Palace) in Paris, and experiments relating to the theme of outer space. (1943-1944).
Bridgeman Arts
Cadets gather to listen to the radio in their camp. Meetings with officers. France, 1944
Clip 5 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. All cadets are in the Head of School...
Bridgeman Arts
Men leaving their families and moving into work camps. France, 1943
Clip 3 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. Men getting their work cards, kissing their...
Getty Images
MS Shot of Post office / Rodemack, Lorraine, France
MS Shot of Post office / Rodemack, Lorraine, France
Getty Images
A finger points to a word in a french dictionary and then to a word in an english-french dictionary.
A finger points to a word in a french dictionary and then to a word in an english-french dictionary.
Getty Images
A finger points at the definition of a word in french dictionary.
A finger points at the definition of a word in french dictionary.
Bridgeman Arts
Band rehearsal in a big hall at the Paris Conservatoire, France, 1943
Clip 2 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. An orchestra rehearses in a big music hall...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: Caucasus
World War II / French language / part of propaganda film / European theater / Eastern Front / French map North Africa to Russia / map focus on Caucasus / Battle of the Caucasus / black smoke from bombing of railroad yard / flames and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: soldiers and mountains
World War II / French language / European theater / Eastern Front / part of propaganda film / CU truck driving through dust / CU Russian Cossack / herd of cattle / German prisoners of war walking through mountains / mules being unloaded...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: German soldiers in Russia
Title card: "Le Monde En Guerre… (The World War)" / World War II / French language / Eastern Front / caption: Leningrad, Lac Ilmen (Lake Ilmen) and Moscou (Moscow) over face of German soldier / gunfire heard as soldiers advance /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi talking to people / CU smiling woman / French language / Indian man at river's edge / Indian people walking through streets during a festival / elephants being ridden in the street / Note: exact year not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: captured soldiers
World War II / French language / captured soldiers march with hands up / troops moving out, walking through civilian crowded streets of port city / wounded German soldiers boarding boat / soldiers boarding truck / Note: exact month/day...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Scenes from US election night, 1952: tallying votes; winner Eisenhower; defeated candidate Stevenson
Crowded room at Democratic headquarters in Washington, man on ladder and below to mark on big tally board, large sign reads Welcome Democrats in bg / crowd on floor, tally board in bg / crowded room, portrait of Stevenson next to board,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: North Africa
World War II / French language / North Africa campaign / Nazi flag on E-boat / German soldiers cleaning E-boat / officer and solider inspect boat's gun turret / barrels being unloaded from ship and rolled away / CU Field Marshall Rommel...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: naval battle
Title card: "Sur Les Divers Front (On Various Fronts)" / World War II / French language / view from airplane of planes in flight / United States Navy ships in battle / CU guns firing across water / ship being hit / explosions / planes...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: Gebirgsjaeger (German mountain soldiers)
World War II / European theater / Eastern Front /French language / part of propaganda film / WS Caucasus Mountains / German mountain soldiers, Gebirgsjaeger, at base of mountain / soldier and loaded mule going up mountain / sign / German...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: Rommel in North Africa
World War II / French language / North Africa campaign / German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel getting out of car, joining other German officers / German soldiers on tanks / CU soldier / Note: exact month/day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: news from the front in French
World War II / anti-aircraft fire at night / French title card for a movie: "Sur Les Divers Fronts" (On Various Fronts) superimposed over tanks, planes in flight, ships at sea and soldier with binoculars / French language / in tropical...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
World War II: France at end of the war
Post World War II / European theater / French language / WS aerial of large group of men and tents / French soldiers walking through town streets / men changing clothes from uniforms to civilian / nude man / train coming into station,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Paris International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life opens in 1937
Title card: "Paris" / French language / aerials of Paris, the Seine River and Eiffel Tower / large group of people descending stairs at the opening of the "Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne" / CU...