Signing of Versailles Treaty

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.263.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3723 | Film ID: 59

Overview

Description: Views of the Palace of Versailles and the gardens. The camera pans left to right across the exterior of the palace, showing the crowds lined up outside. More exterior shots - the fountain, crowds cheering, waving flags, soldiers marching in formation. One car after another drives through a large archway - the delegates arriving. Delegates and their wives embark from cars and are greeted and escorted inside: French Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, American Secretary of State Robert Lansing, General Tasker Howard Bliss, Herbert Hoover, General Michel Maunoury, Generals Allen and Persihng, Colonel Edward House, Arthur Balfour, Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Paderewski, David Lloyd George, Baron Sidney Sonnino, Ambassador Hugh Wallace, and President and Mrs. Wilson. Reporters (?) take notes. After Wilson and his wife are led inside, the scene switches to the interior of the Hall of Mirrors. The perspective is from the back of the room, over the head of the crowd. Scene switches again to the exterior, crowds rushing up to the Palace. Close up shot as Lloyd George, Orlando, Clemenceau, and Wilson come outside briefly, pose, and go back inside. Shot of Wilson as he exits. More shots of the crowds milling about outside.
Duration: 00:08:08
Date: Event: 1919 June 28
Production: 1936
Locale: Versailles, France
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 02:11:53:00 to 02:20:01:00
Film Format: Master
Master 59 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 59 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 59 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 59 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 59 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 59 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 59 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 59 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 59 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 59 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC
Preservation 59 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 59 Video: U-matic - 3/4 inch - NTSC

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Copyright: Public Domain
Conditions on Use: To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

Keyword: DIPLOMATS FRANCE PALACES/CASTLES TREATIES USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION) VERSAILLES TREATY WORLD WAR I

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: Thaxton Green Studios, Inc., the production company hired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to produce the film titled "Nazi Rise to Power" in the Permanent Exhibition, purchased this footage from various archival repositories and other archival sources from September 1991 to June 1992. Consult Film Archive staff for specific source details.
Film Source: Thaxton Green Studios, Inc.
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3899
Source Archive Number: 111 H 1243
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive