This clip is from a film that traces the events leading to the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille. It begins with various people marching toward the Bastille. Cuts to a man climbing up the raised draw bridge. Cuts to the people looking up at him. Cuts to soldiers along the towers of the Bastille. Cuts to the man cutting down the rope holding the bridge up. The bridge falls and everybody runs inside. Cuts to the exterior of the Chateau of Versailles. Cuts to a portrait of Louis XVI. Cuts to an actor playing him. Cuts to a man walking down a hallway and entering the room where the King waits for him.