Algiers solemnly welcomed the bodies of 135 Algerian fighters who fell in the battles of Italy, France and Germany during the WWII.
Report on the construction of the future "Palais des festivals" which will host the ceremonies and screenings of the next Cannes International Film Festival.
The trial of Marshal Pétain for high treason lasts four weeks in July and August 1945. The last days of the trial: the witnesses, the closing speech of the prosecutor, the pleadings of the lawyers, t...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
Der Schwarz-Weiß-Film von Ernst Hirsch von 1959 war eine Auftragsproduktion für den Deutschen Fernsehfunk der DDR. Er zeigt den Weg, den die Kunstschätze, z. B. des Grünen Gewölbes und der Gemäl...
Der Schwarz-Weiß-Film „Putti“ ist eine Gemeinschaftsarbeit des sogenannten Laienfilmstudios des Kulturbunds Dresden aus dem Jahr 1952, bei der Ernst Hirsch als Kameramann fungierte und der späte...
The city of Dresden was bombed by the Allies during the night of the 13th to the 14th of February 1945. Canadian army captures Kleve on February 26th.
The desertification of the French countryside takes tragic proportions, for instance in Goudron. The film presents the solutions to avoid the concentric madness of cities: modernization of agriculture...
"I monumenti italiani e la guerra" is a documentary showing the vast war damages on Italian art heritage, as well as the long but mostly successful restoration process that followed. It was realised b...
Austrian Headquarters for Jewish Agency, man at table, in headquaters, people boarding buses, through Austria, Sign "Camp CH.N.Bialik, street Jewish Agency Palestine Immigration office, sending goods ...
After having joined Italy again in 1954, the city of Trieste witnessed the flourishing of trade port and an increase of the employment rate. Some of its former citizens left Yugoslavia and moved to th...
To manage the increase in the number of school children and students, classrooms in prefabricated materials have been installed in schools and colleges which have become too cramped.
Le Havre is the most destroyed harbourg on the continent. While the war is over, men clear the ruins to make room for the new docks. Commentary on aerial views of the port and the excavation and recon...
Through Charley's journey, the cartoon seeks to underline the disadvantages of traditional cities and the need for new, functional and hygienic cities.
This cartoon seeks to persuade us of the di...
The documentary shows the efforts to rebuild, firstly in a temporary and then in definitive, the principal railway stations and lines to reconnect physically and economically the entire country.
Norwegens Wasserkraftwerk ist bereit, Energie zu erzeugen und Norwegen sowie einige Nachbarländer mit Storm zu versorgen. Die faszinierende Geschichte dieses gigantischen Unternehmens wird von einem ...
Über dem Bild einer bewegten See und auslaufender Fischerboote läuft ein Zwischentitel: „This film could not have been made without the aid of the people and the government of the Netherlands who ...
Vom gleichen Team wie A Ship is Born hergestellt, zeigt "Silkmakers of Como" technisch ebenso große Professionalität. Der Gestus aber ist ein anderer, statt mit den imposanten Bilder der Werft und d...
Work began on the new Naples station. Electrification from Bologna to Venice completed. The locomotive of train 450 is fished out. In Milan, the flag is handed over to the ex-combatant railway worker...
The documentary shows the impressive work of doubling the Battipaglia - Reggio Calabria line, with the construction of the new track but also the construction of new bridges, tunnels and buildings. Th...
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 ...
Die Schwarz-Weiß-Aufnahmen von Ernst Hirsch dokumentieren die Sprengung des letzten verbliebenen Bogenträgers der Carolabrücke am 7. März 1952. Kurz vor Kriegsende, am 7. Mai 1945, war sie von Ein...
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...