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.
Millions of Europeans, refugees and deportees, return to their homeland. The film shows the Americans' organized transfer of displaced persons, as well as the arrival in the Soviet zone of hundreds of...
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...
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.
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...
L'épisode montre comment le cinéma est utilisé dans la recherche technique de la SNCF. Les essais sont filmés et étudiés par les techniciens, qui peuvent ainsi apporter les modifications nécess...
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 ...
Norways hydroelectric complex, is finally ready to supply power to the nation and some of its neighbors. The fascinating story of the monster undertaking is told by a worker at the site. Begun before ...
Over the images of a rough sea and outgoing fishing boats runs an intertitle: "This film could not have been made without the aid of the people and the government of the Netherlands who have worked to...
Produced by the same team as "A Ship is Born", "Silkmakers of Como" shows just as much technical professionalism. The tone, however, is different, instead of the imposing images of the shipyard and th...
Work began on the new Naples station. Electrification from Bologna to Venice completed. The locomotive of train 450 is fished out. In Milan, the flag is handed over to the ex-combatant railway worker...
The documentary shows the impressive work of doubling the Battipaglia - Reggio Calabria line, with the construction of the new track but also the construction of new bridges, tunnels and buildings. Th...
Phase of the doubling works on the Battipaglia - Reggio Calabria line. Inauguration in Rome of the first section of the Metro: Termini Station - Eur. A concrete bridge with pendulum suspension tested ...
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...
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...
La destruction du viaduc de Caronte en 1944 par l'armée allemande a privé la région de liaisons maritimes et ferroviaires vitales. En 1947, avant d'entreprendre la reconstruction définitive de ce ...
Fête des apprentis au Vélodrome d'hiver (défilé devant le stand officiel et animations folkloriques) ; exposition sur l'urbanisme ; rappel de l'importance du respect de la sécurité pour et par l...
Dommages de guerre à Cologne. La caméra balaye les décombres, mais aussi les tas de gravats et les surfaces en grande partie déblayées. Toute la zone semble déserte, on ne voit que quelques femm...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Paris, le 10 mars 1945 : de la gare de Lyon au cimetière du Père Lachaise, les obsèques de Pierre Semard, fusillé par les allemands le 7 mars 1942. Raymond Tournemaine, secrétaire général de la...
Meeting of displaced persons, especially from Torschau (today Savino Selo in Serbia): film footage from Kirchheim unter Teck, Winnenden, Waiblingen, Wolfratshausen, Neckarsteinach, Unter-Schönmattenw...
Pèlerinage à Lourdes. Téléphérique. Panorama sur la vallée. Portrait de famille. Un petit garçon dans une voiture à pédale. Une petite fille joue avec un ballon. Deux enfants courent sur la r...
The film depicts a six-year period under the Nazi oppression in the city of Zlin. It displays bilingual signs, a lack of food and petrol. People are preparing for and protecting from bombing, they are...