This black & white educational film is about hand to hand combat techniques. This is entirely in French. This is circa the 1930s.Opening titles: L'Ecole De Gendarmerie presents Le Combat Corps & Corps (:34-1:27). Two men walk along in a wooded area. A French military man walks over to them and checks their papers. The two men suddenly jump the military man. He reacts and subdues them. Combat fighting technique is shown in slow motion as a training exercise. One man tosses the other over his shoulder to the ground. The gets up and kicks but the kick is thwarted and the man flipped back to the floor. He then gets up and flips the man onto the mat (1:28-3:41). One of the men flips the other using his right foot and falling backward. A teacher shoes off different ways and areas to hit a man. He then brings a second man and points out pressure points and places to hit (3:42-4:52). The teacher asks the student to fall. The teacher asks two men to show off hand to hand combat, a headbutt followed by a chop. How to kick downward or stomp is simulated. Two men stare at one another as the teacher talks. One pulls a gun while the other has his hands up, he suddenly pushes the gun in the opposite direction, drops the man and chops his throat, retrieving the gun (4:53-6:45). A man puts a gun to a man's back. He turns and reacts. Chop at the man's throat. They try the exercise again. Teacher watches as two men stare, raise hands at one another, they show how to block and drop your opponent. If a man swings low, how to block and swing high to drop your enemy (6:46-8:11). How to grab someone's foot/lower leg while standing is shown. Ducking down to scoop someone by the legs is discussed. How to remove someone's hand from your chest. A man flips the other over his shoulder to the mat (8:12-9:39). Kicking at one another's shins. How to grab a man's foot and twist him. Hand to hand and dropping someone up high. A chop to the throat. Headlocks and push offs (9:40-11:21). One man grabs another and has his face mushed by his opponents hands, followed by a kick to the stomach. A man lays on the ground, the other man leans on his right arm in order to cuff him, he does it slowly (11:22-13:04). The military man presses one man's face into the ground and gets ready to grab the other guy (the scenario from the beginning). He has cuffed both. He walks them both along with him (13:05-13:42). End credits (13:43-13:49)
