A documentary film comparing current / everyday and historical / noble aspects of Prague.
The latest electric locomotives, the 2D2 5500 combines comfort, speed and safety. The film follows the production, the routing and the transformation of the electric energy necessary for modern electr...
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.
First, pictures of pre-war Hanover are shown, followed by the result of the Second World War, the rubble landscape of Hanover. Then the beginning and the individual steps of the reconstruction until t...
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...
A plane lands in Berlin, passengers leave the plane and pass through customs, suitcases are unloaded. Ride by cab or bus into the city. Chancellor Adenauer on the bus to Berlin. Stream of refugees in ...
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.
The Tiber Island, a characteristic green oasis and ancient walls in the heart of Rome, is the place where the typical activities related to the river take place.
The documentary describes the experience of domestic workers who come to Rome from the province and tells about their leisure time.
Construction of a housing estate in Bordeaux. The film shows the different phases - from the piece of waste land where children play until the constitution of the gardens. The comment emphasizes the c...
After the presentation of the slums in Pantin, the film follows the progress of the construction of 2 000 HLM housing. It aims to demonstrate how effectively public authorities, the construction compa...
A promotional film presenting the cities and natural landscapes of Czechoslovakia to a foreign audience. The framework of the film is a staged situation of projection for the audience in a non-theatri...
First experience of a house displacement in Châtillon in order to build a deviation of the national road 306. The film explains in detail the technique used. This house is the first of fifteen houses...
The film describes the housing crisis in France (slums, insalubrity, development of tuberculosis, etc.) and presents then the solutions: the mass production enables the lowering of the construction co...
Famed radio station RIAS (Radio In the American Sector), which brought news and entertainment to the people of Berlin and Communist East Germany, is featured in this report. In the western sectors of ...
In the mountains of Austria, Norway and Italy, in France's Rhone Valley - Europe is harnessing waterways and building large power plants to supply much-needed, cheap electricity to Europe's revitalize...
A central message of the modernization program, which was the ERP, lay in the promise that the increase in productivity would also, and above all, benefit the consumer via the resulting fall in prices...
A day in a suburb of a big city. From dawn to dusk the suburb, a city in the city, lives its particular life full of charm and poetry. It is a panorama of human characters who live on the edge of a bi...
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...
The film is fully in the tradition of ethnographic documentary. The description of the Somali capital refers to the same cinematic medium, between the white of the ancient architecture of different pe...
If there were an ideal-typical Marshall Plan film, "Village without Words) would come very close to it. Surprisingly, in Kurland's film the ideal takes the form of a hymn, a celebration of aid and rec...
Winter 1945: emergency aid for victims and orphans provided by a charity organisation.
The little story of Koula the mule and his friend, a Greek farm boy, was well received outside Greece in Western Europe. The film commentary was translated into nine languages. With the help of mules ...