The second episode of this monthly news program about the European Recovery Program describes events in four nations. Germany signs the ECA agreement, and ERP exhibitions open in Berlin and Düsseldor...
Lors de leurs vacances à Paris, les vacanciers visitent Notre-Dame de Paris et se promènent le long de la Seine.
Playful promotional film with elements of melodramatic reenactment shows the spa town of Karlovy Vary and its facilities for treatment of heart diseases.
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...
Visiting former neighbors from Torschau (today Savino Selo in Serbia) in October 1947: Greeting scenes and men smoking cigarettes on the street. One of them is an American GI. Crossing the border betw...
Repas (la fin ?), dans un jardin à l'ombre. Deux hommes et un garçon en maillot de bain dans la rue, ils s'amusent avec un ballon. Ils rejoignent d'autres personnes, traversent une rue et se retrouv...
En route vers Paris, Verdun est visité lors d'une escale. La vacancière flâne dans les rues animées et passe devant les vitrines des magasins.
Bordeaux : construction d'une cité de la cité de la Benauge de A à Z. Ce film d'archive nous montre les différentes phases de construction. Le terrain vague où jouent des enfants, aux fondations ...
Algiers solemnly welcomed the bodies of 135 Algerian fighters who fell in the battles of Italy, France and Germany during the WWII.
Report on the construction of the future "Palais des festivals" which will host the ceremonies and screenings of the next Cannes International Film Festival.
The trial of Marshal Pétain for high treason lasts four weeks in July and August 1945. The last days of the trial: the witnesses, the closing speech of the prosecutor, the pleadings of the lawyers, t...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
The black-and-white film by Ernst Hirsch from 1959 was a commissioned production for the GDR's Deutsche Fernsehfunk. It shows the path that the art treasures, e.g. of the Green Vault and the Picture G...
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 ...
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.
Finance minister Maurice Petsche calls on the French to purchase government bonds for the country's reconstruction and for facilities. He symbolically grants one bond share to French president Vincent...
The 30 November 1952 elections in Saarland have resulted in a victory for the party in favour of a regime marked by pro-European autonomy and unity with France. Saarland is presented as a mining count...
Opening of Maréchal Pétain's trial on 23 July 1945 in the Paris High Courts of Justice. Retrospective pictures of the return of Pétain to France, his captivity in Montrouge and the opening of the t...
A survey of the situation in postwar Germany, produced to raise funds in the US. The film is clearly structured: The first part demonstrates the severe damage of German cities, carefully weaving in ch...
Documentary on the progress made since WWII for the reconstruction of the port and the city of Hamburg. After the war, unemployment and the housing shortage, the city dwellers find work in the shipyar...