The black-and-white film "Putti" is a collaborative work of the so-called amateur film studio of the Kulturbund Dresden from 1952, in which Ernst Hirsch acted as cameraman and the later DEFA director ...
This series includes twelve films that report on economic successes and progress in various countries of Euopa. All but the film on France have been preserved. © 2002 Linda R. Christenson
"Ci siamo mai chiesti chi sono, da dove vengono, come vivono gli ombrellari?". La vita solitaria delle donne di Secinaro, il 'paese degli ombrellari'. La giornata di lavoro di un ombrellaio raccontat...
A "School for Officers" is established at the historic "Ecole Militaire" in Paris. Staff officers and senior officials from all 14 NATO countries are trained with the aim of forming an effective defen...
The documentary black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch shows Sorbian Easter riders on their procession from Bautzen to Radwor/Radibor in April 1954. The film also shows securing work on the roof of t...
A documentary film made on the occasion of the opening of the V. I. Lenin Museum in Prague with the participation of President Klement Gottwald and the government. Thanks to various reconstructions th...
An animated film that tells the story of the Marshall Plan's economic reconstruction aid in the form of a fable. Emphasis is placed on breaking down trade barriers and building a community market. © ...
The film was shot on the occasion of the 4th World Festival of Youth and Students 1953 in Bucharest. It tells the story of a high school graduate who is supposed to work in production in a socialist y...
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 ...
The staged film represents the crew of the film newsreel, which has the task of finding suitable types of people, on the example of which it is possible to show negative social phenomena. They mainly ...
A general overview on the damages provoked by the WWII to the railway infrastructures and on the efforts to reconstruct them undertaken by the Italian state in collaboration with the allies.
Speakers pledge rehabilitation of displaced persons and refugees undergo training at Zettlitz farm.
0 Titles / 43 MV memorial and people passing by / 50 Refugees at Camp Feldafing / 70 Refugees i...
Film production supported by the British occupation forces as part of the Re-Orientation Program. Set in post-war Germany, the film tells the story of the Stadtmeier couple, who are on their way to vi...
Montan film about the European Coal and Steel Community.
The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch document the roof work on the Cathedral of St. Trinitatis or Catholic Court Church, carried out by master builder Hermann Ullrich at the beginning of the 19...
The basement of the Parisian suburbs is riddled with quarries and vaults due to the construction of the metro. An entire district of Nanterre collapsed after a landslide due to the erosion of the subs...