In August 1944, allied forces, including U.S. and Free French units, entered Paris and ended approximately four years of German occupation of the French capital. The Champs-Élysées with the Arc de Triomphe as its central landmark formed the symbolic center of this event. Jack Lieb captured the scene as rare color footage—one of the few color documentations of the liberation of Paris, as contemporary film recordings of these events were preserved almost exclusively in black and white. In Lieb’s film, this sequence appears in the section on the liberation of Paris, following the advance through Normandy and over Versailles.