Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. NATO CONFERENCE THIRD DAY, PARIS, FRANCE

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. NATO CONFERENCE THIRD DAY, PARIS, FRANCE

1953

View over heads of newsmen audience as Dr Paulo Cunha, Portugese Foreign Minister addresses them in French. MS, Cunha speaks. (Silent from here). Ext, newsmen greet and chat with a NATO delegate. View from palace as a copter (Hiller) flies past Eiffel Tower. Two Gendarmes chat. Gendarme directs arriving autos. Ss palace grounds; tilt-up on Eiffel Tower (camera shake). Int, Cunha and aide enter press conference room. They sit at speakers' table and start the conference. HSs, Gen Matthew B. Ridgway chats with a naval officer in palace anteroom. Gen Alfred M. Gruenther, Gen Omar Bradley, Rene Pleven, John Foster Dulles are among those seen in anteroom during recess. The delegates return to conference room. Ext, autos drive up and discharge delegates. Newsmen wait to meet arrivals. Note: Sound quality poor.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6430188

National Archives at College Park

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