Summary

French Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny signs agreement with Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk during First Indochinese War

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 36080
Clip SR003020_01_13.mov
Date 1/1/1951
Title French Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny signs agreement with Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk during First Indochinese War
Description (Footage compiled at death of Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny) / in November, 1951, car carrying de Tassigny approaches Royal Palace of King Norodom Sihanouk, row of Cambodian soldiers in French colonial military standing on either side saluting / crowd of officials inside palace / Sihanouk sitting at table signing agreement / Buddhist monks in audience watching / de Tassigny siting at table signing agreement / monks watching / Sihanouk and de Tassigny sitting in chairs next to one another / two shots of monks in audience // [Vassieux-en-Vercors, France] crowd of people in field around French flag in flagpole at commemoration of French Resistance and the Maquis du Vercors (segment of French Forces of the Interior) of WWII in Vercors, France / overhead shot of people standing in front row of grave markers / de Tassigny and French officers and officials walking along / shot of rock formations on nearby hill / de Tassigny and officials walking towards camera / French color guard standing at attention / CU de Tassigny talking to someone / French soldiers standing in formation holding weapons / shot of crowd in front of altar with large cross behind it / close view of de Tassigny standing with officials / close view of French soldier saluting / CU sign in French / crowd of school girls standing in front of grave markers / French flag waving on flagpole above trees / Note: exact month/day not known
Personality Jean de Lattre, Norodom Sihanouk
Country Cambodia
City Phnom Penh

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