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On the mountains of Syria ski troops patrol in thick snow even though it’s summer - and by contrast in the Sahara Desert natives commanded by French officers also patrol - two aspects of France on guard.
Governor of Algeria flies to Fort Tamanrasset, southernmost French outpost.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil From the Sahara. DESCRIPTION: Oil from the waste land of the desert, the first of the oil from the Hassi-Messaoud Wells (about five-hundred miles south of the Algerian port of...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sahara Rocket Trials. DESCRIPTION: Wide open spaces: that’s the place for a rocket range. Few places could be wider than the Sahara Desert. The French have had a range at...
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The French Crisis. DESCRIPTION: France has witnessed many a political crisis, in the post-war years, this was a crisis with a difference; that confronted Monsieur Gaillard’s eventual...
Tests in desert are big success.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Riches From the Desert. DESCRIPTION: Early last Spring, France was hard at work, laying a 400-mile pipe-line from the central Sahara to the Mediterranean. Enormous reserves of oil had...
Vivid pictures of De Gaulle’s atom bomb.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sahara Burn-Up - Oil Fire. DESCRIPTION: Natural gas caught fire last November in French gasfields in the Sahara, the biggest blazing gas main you’re ever likely to see! They had to...
French near end of preparations for putting out natural gas blaze, raging since November.
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