Film was filmed in Krasnodar, Tallinn, Moldova, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and Uzbekistan. Agricultural works in the village of Russian Empire: a peasant plows, cuts the grass with scythe, flail...
German soldiers. Checking of documents. A passer-by unsuccessfully tries to run. Cabinet drawer with cards. Taking of fingerprints. Exploring of obtained fingerprints with a lip. The poster with the i...
A promotional film about Lithuania's capital Vilnius, its streets, people, architectural monuments, new buildings, entertainment.
Lithuanian diplomate Stasys Lozoraitis speaks in the conference in Riga. He wishes a happy political future for Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, and hopes that the political relations between Baltic cou...
Rural views in spring. River. Stork in its‘ nest. Children in the swings. Chickens, turkeys. Just-born calf. Herd of calves. Collective farm workers in the dug field. Sowing-machines are prepared as...
SS officer gives awards. Street fights on the way to Kaunas. Wounded soldier. Pontoon bridge. Cannon fire on enemy positions. Convoy. Armored vehicles on the railway tracks. Shooting of German cannon,...
Kaunas views. Ruins of Kaunas castle, Kaunas cathedral. Jesuit church. Town hall square. Vytautas church. Ships in river. Nemunas near Kaunas wharf. Aleksotas bridge. The church of Lithuanian universi...
Actor probes for feature film “Eglė the Queen of Serpents”. Casting: Leokadija Aškelovičiūtė as Eglė, Česlovas Žebrauskas as Žilvinas, Jadvyga Jovaišaitė and Stasys Dautartas as Parents...
"Asylrecht" was made in 1948/49 as a commissioned work for the British occupation forces. It was shown in Great Britain under the title Report on the Refugee Situation, January 1949. In Germany, where...
Phase of the doubling works on the Battipaglia - Reggio Calabria line. Inauguration in Rome of the first section of the Metro: Termini Station - Eur. A concrete bridge with pendulum suspension tested ...
The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch documents the blasting of the last remaining arch girder of the Carola Bridge on March 7, 1952. Shortly before the end of the war, on May 7, 1945, it had be...
In Maremma, the love story between two young peasants and the head of the family’s resistance to change are part of the background of a discourse on the need to modernize agricultural technology for...
Heilbronn after the destruction; reconstruction; housing construction; Swabian Regional Gymnastics Festival (1959). Film footage from 1945 to the mid-1960s.
In an alpine ski resort, children from different countries spend the vacations together with their parents. Their playful competitions in the snow are marred by difficulties of understanding and natio...
Destroyed cities after the end of World War II, clean-up work, cleaning bricks, men hammering pegs into the ground to fortify dikes, destroyed industrial facilities, including mines, miners working in...
The film depicts the work of workers climbing tall cranes and scaffolds in large shipyard facilities from a base 100 feet high. Filmed both from below and from the scaffolds, these workers are shown i...
Documentary film about the reconstruction of the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague. It presents the history of the Bethlehem Chapel from 1391 through the Josephine period, when the chapel turned into a wareh...
This film presents at least two distinct settings: on the one hand, the film reports on the progress of a construction site near Caen. From the foundations of the buildings to the roofs, the different...
The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch shows famous views of Dresden by the painter Bernardo Bellotto, known as Canaletto. He juxtaposes the historical images with current footage from 1962 and d...
A film about the first post-war October in Prague is also an experimental work in colour documentary. in addition to the colors of the autumn trees, it also plays with the colors of the neon lights an...
Using non-fictional shots and animated maps, the film presents the planned project of the Elbe-Oder-Danube Canal, which should open the way for Czechoslovakia to the world's seas and connect it with t...
Film představuje technickou podstatu a historický vývoj staroměstského orloje na budově Staroměstské radnice v Praze. Jelikož se radnice stala jednou z mála pražských budov poničených v ...
Prague celebrates the fifth anniversary of its liberation by the Red Army in the presence of Klement Gottwald, the President of Czechoslovakia, and the Russian Marshal Boulganine.
Catholic and folk parade, probably in Reims.