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.
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 ...
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...
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 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...
1. 1951: Inauguration of the newly constructed Nordstadtbrücke in the presence of Minister President Reinhold Maier / 2. 1970: Inauguration of the Kanzlersteg over the river Enz / 3. 1971: Renovation...
"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...
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...
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...
A critical propagandistic documentary compiled of archival footages depicting crimes of Germans on the Czech land, including intertitles counting how many war crimes were committed by Nazis and maps r...
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 ...
Catholic and folk parade, probably in Reims.
The film tells of incredible adventures in the commentary. But its images explore the gleaming machinery of a factory, full of the latest new technology, with which milk from all over France is turned...
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...
The story of the INA-Casa project begins with the architect's study, which from the design of luxurious villas moves on to houses for the people, giving an account of a project functional to the indus...
The film outlines the state of transportation in post-war Europe and the progress being made in rebuilding and modernizing roads, airports and the rail network. National initiatives and Marshall Plan ...
Film production supported by the British occupation forces as part of the Re-Orientation program. A radio reporter for women's issues provokes in his broadcast with the suggestion that women should co...
Film extracts and sequences illustrating the French cinema and denouncing the taxes for the film industry.
The film is preceded by the following message in the opening credits: "This is a translated version of a film produced under the supervision of the Information Control Division, Office of Military Gov...
The film evokes the demographic increase in France and the housing crisis to which the new constructions are struggling to respond, with real examples and fictional cases.
The film begins with ge...