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.
The digging of the canal on the Rhône and the construction of a dam, between Donzère (Drôme) and Mondragon (Vaucluse) have started. This is the result of the Marshall plan for the hydroelectric ind...
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 sequence takes place in Saint-Dizier (new town) (today called Vert-Bois) during the inauguration by Maurice Lemaire (Minister of Reconstruction) of a housing estate of 216 apartments that will soo...
Greek villagers return to their homes in the mountains, destroyed first in the fight against the Germans and then in the civil war. The film shows how laboriously and agonizingly these people rebuild ...
An experimental building site near Paris was built just after the WWII. Inaugurating the policy of experimental sites led by the Ministry of Reconstruction and Town Planning, it reflects the will of t...
Czechoslovak newsreel depicting European workers' conference, peace march, assembly of the best lathes, spring work in agriculture, scrap processing, and production of new cars.
Displaced children in post-war Europe are eventually brought to Palestine. (Source: Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
Not only in contrast to an untroubled childhood in America but even in co...
Roger Gillet (1916-1974), a mechanical modeler by training and later head of a carpentry-cabinetmaking company, was a member of the PCF in the 20th arrondissement of Paris // In the mid-1950s, he took...
I 1885 får William Cody - bedre kendt som Buffalo Bill - den strålende idé at bruge sit berømte navn i showbusiness. Han skaber et stort vild-vest-cirkus og cementerer sit flotte ry som præriehel...
The ruins left by the war will be replaced by cities and buildings designed by architects. We already see some of their achievements, compared to the monuments of the past.
Living conditions are difficult for many elderly people in this winter. This episode denounces that French people who worked all their lives, fought during the WWI and gave their sons during this last...
The foreman at the construction site for a new dam in the Austrian alps explains to the audience, why electricity provided by water power will be key for the economic recovery and technological modern...
A documentary about youth brigades that are being offered for the reconstruction of Lidice. The film recalls the tragedy of Lidice and describes the work of international youth in the construction of ...
The black-and-white film "Baroque in Reconstruction" by Ernst Hirsch dates from 1951/52 and shows reconstruction work on the Zwinger, which was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945. The inter...
Vacationers visit the Place de la Concorde in Paris and look at the Luxor obelisk and the Hôtel de Crillon. In the distance you can see the Eiffel Tower and children launch boats in a small body of w...
An insight into a social life taking place in public cafeterias told from a perspective of a journalist-director. It presents the venue of public cafeteria in contrast to a luxurious restaurant. It de...
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...
Il documentario illustra l'impiego dell'alluminio, definito "il metallo del secolo", nella costruzione di edifici ad uso abitativo, di alberghi, di impianti sportivi
1 - panoramiche su alcune cit...
During the grape harvest, two women trample the grape in Montmartre and pour the juice in the bottle. On its label, Truman and Stalin clink glasses.
Report on the "Fines" operation which consists in fining everyone who is caught red-handed 900 francs, whether they are pedestrians or motorists. A competition to find the best policeman and the best ...
The French government introduces a rental tax intended to finance the improvement and maintenance of housing.
Reopening of the Eiffel Tower to the public after the WWII and the German occupation.
An amateur film depicting physics lessons at a rural primary school. Boys and girls engage in physical experiments and count, the film also shows an examination. The author is probably a teacher.