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...
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...
Winter 1945: emergency aid for victims and orphans provided by a charity organisation.
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...
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
Film extracts and sequences illustrating the French cinema and denouncing the taxes for the film industry.
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.
A film about the first post-war October in Prague is also an experimental work in colour documentary. in addition to the colors of the autumn trees, it also plays with the colors of the neon lights an...
Using non-fictional shots and animated maps, the film presents the planned project of the Elbe-Oder-Danube Canal, which should open the way for Czechoslovakia to the world's seas and connect it with t...
Film představuje technickou podstatu a historický vývoj staroměstského orloje na budově Staroměstské radnice v Praze. Jelikož se radnice stala jednou z mála pražských budov poničených v ...
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 JDC's essential role in the relief, reconstruction, and resettlement of European Jewry after 1945. (Source: Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
A report about the help the American Joint Di...
Défilé catholique et folklorique, probablement à Reims. Chars de Cirque. Visite de Reims : statue de Jeanne d'Arc. Pêche et tricot. Reims / Cheval / Eléphant / Notre-Dame des Travailleurs (Mondev...
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...
A monthly report from Europe about three different countries. The first installment of the series presents the aid and cooperation of Germany, Denmark and Sweden. © 2002 Linda R. Christenson
A documentary film depicting the voyage of eight hundred European Jews to Palestine in 1940. Racial intolerance fueled by fascism and war is likened to a flood, a ship with Jews then to Noah's ark, a ...
The French Minister of Reconstruction and Town Planning visited the construction sites of Nantes and Saint Nazaire.
The film acknowledges the advancements in modern naval engineering and sailing by showing the manufacturing process of the boat engines from the Fiat industrial plants in Turin to the Taormina harbour...
Document d'information générale visant à mettre en valeur le travail des hommes lors de la construction du barrage de Donzère Mondragon. Les ouvrages nécessaires à la domestication des eaux du R...
The film is full of contrasts. Corinth’s great past, shown by its ruins, seems to be replaced by a much less picturesque standard of living caused by poverty. A shepherd with his sheep is juxtapose...
The history of the Niger project in French West Africa and the work being done in land reclamation, irrigation and rice-growing—with equipment purchased through the Marshall Plan. (Note: France appl...
The history of the car manufacturing corporation Fiat from 1899 to the 1950s. Through a short overview the film provides insights on the earliest car models and on the production process inside the fa...
How the people of Walcheren Island (Netherlands) have—with courage, perseverance and faith—reclaimed their island from the sea by repairing the dikes that were destroyed in the war. They are build...