*** NIGHT SHOTS ***

1. ws square and fountains in Paris

2. ms and pan various stars and guests walk up steps with umbrellas

3. ms star speaks to press in crowd

4. vs crowd inside

5. vs stars seated

6. ws military band on stage

7. vs stars and guests sitting at tables

8. ms Paramount film final credits "Fin"

9. vs stars and guests with press

10. cu film poster "Paris Brule - t-il?"

11. vs stars at dinner tables talking and smoking

12. vs water fountains

13. vs man singing, lights down

14. ws water fountains

*** Date Approx. ***

Film: Neg - Sound: Mute - B&W - NYFilm: No - LN Number: No - Available in HD

Film, "Is Paris Burning?" which deals with the liberation of Paris in 1944 liberation by rival branches of the French Resistance - Communists and Gaullists and the Free French Forces, holds it's premiere in Paris. Stars include Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Frobe, Yves Montand, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Robert Stack, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Simone Signoret and Alain Delon. The film is based on the novel by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre and was directed by Rene Clement, from a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the film score had words added by Maurice Vidalin and became a patriotic anthem sung by Mireille Mathieu under the title "Paris en colere."

*** Includes file footage of the Liberation of France in 1944 ***