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Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com "The French Campaign 1944" (produced 1945) documents the Allied invasion of Occupied France from the D-Day invasion to the liberation of Paris. 00:00 the Arc d’Triumph, the Eiffel Tower, Église de la Madeleine, Parisians shoppers, and cafe des Deux Magots. 01:03 An artist sketches the Arc d’Triumph; people buy and read books and artwork. 01:30 Writers exchange ideas at the congress of writers. 01:44 Nightlife at Moulin Rouge and Le Rat Mort. 02:15 The Review Board 1938 is posted noting the inevitability of war. 02:25 Bomb shelters are constructed and sandbags piled in front of buildings. 02:40 News headlines: German invasion of Poland, Holland, Belgium and the occupation of Paris. 02:50 A Panzer.Kpfw. II Ausf. tank rolls down a street; German troops march along Champs-Élysées. 03:07 Despondent Parisians. General Goering and entourage travel through Paris. Adolf Hitler views Eiffel Tower. 03:40 Roosevelt speaks on June 10, 1940 at University of Virginia. 04:04 Women prepare kit packages, Le Paquet au Front, for France. 04:15 US Army solider train; factory workers build ships, canon, F6 Hellcat airplanes, M3 and Sherman tanks. 05:17 A Martin PBM Mariner flies above warships. 05:30 Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill discuss invasion of Europe at The Chateau Frontenac in Quebec,1943. 05:44 Roosevelt, Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran. 06:07 Map of Europe showing German domination. German gun emplacements and Czech Hedgehog beach obstacles at Normandy. General Erwin Rommel inspects fortifications. 06:53 Bristol Blenheim, B-26s and B17s bombers fly in formation, drop bombs, repel German fighters. 07:50 Transport ships deliver trucks. 08:10 Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery plan D-Day. 08:22 P-47s attack German trains and airfields. 09:12 Battleships bombard the coast. 09:36 Map shows the allied invasion into France. 09:45 Allied troops land on Normandy beaches. Germans fire. US attack with flamethrower, bazooka, and M2 mortar. US breaks into the French countryside. 10:27 Map animates US progress on the Cotentin Peninsula. Supplies, halftracks, tanks, and troops arrive by landing craft. 10:48 Troops enter Cherbourg, buildings destroyed. An M8 Greyhound rolls through the streets. Germans surrender. 11:25 American engineers rebuild docks at Cherbourg. 11:48 Map shows allied build up along Cotentin Peninsula. 11:52 Generals Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower confer with staff.12:00 General George Patton pontificates. 12:04 USAAF B-24 and B-25 bombers bomb Saint-Lô.12:20 Sherman tanks, M8s, and troops pour through the gaps. 12:50 Map shows progress of American troops across Breton Peninsula and Falaise. 13:04 German troops, panzers travel roads. 13:20 British, Canadian tanks, artillery blast German positions. 13:44 Destroyed German panzer tanks sit roadside; German prisoners. 13:56 A convoy of Diamond T trucks bring supplies from the beaches. 14:16 Map animates allied invasion from the South of France. 14:23 Paratroopers leap from C-47 transport planes. 14:46 LST landing ships offload troops and supplies. 15:00 Map animates progress of allies from to German border. 15:06 German tanks roll down Paris streets. French fighters defend. 15:55 German troops attacked by a Molotov cocktail; the weapon’s of the dead confiscated. 16:23 Map shows allies aiding Paris. 16:35 M8 Greyhounds and Diamond T trucks roll towards Paris. 16:40 General Jacques-Philippe Leclerc arrives; Sherman tanks roll through French streets; grateful citizens cheer. 17:14 French and German forces fight in city street. 17:30 German POWs. 17:45 Crowds rejoice. 18:08 General Charles de Gaulle marches with cheering crowds. 18:30 Allied troops march through Paris. 18:50 Liberated Parisians enjoy a peaceful life. 19:17 END. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. 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