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...
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...
Reconstruction of the German economy with the help of American loans through the Marshall Plan: 18 flags of the nations involved in the European reconstruction program. Machine construction, building ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
La reconstruction d'un viaduc entre la France et l'Allemagne, en Alsace.
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...
Reconstruction in Heilbronn: city hall, train station, museums, etc. Film footage shot between 1947 and 1957.
Reconstruction in Heilbronn: schools and churches. Film footage from 1946 - 1957, before 22.02.1957.
A playful film about a Saturday: In the morning clean laundry has to be delivered to customers and hotels across the city. In the afternoon the friends can go to the fair and enjoy themselves. The fil...
Venise, une femme sur la place saint Marc nourrit des pigeons, c'est l'hiver, les passants sont couverts, il y a du brouillard.
Document d'archive présentant l'action du MRU (ministère de la Reconstruction et de l'Urbanisme) dans la ville de Caen. Ce document montre la ville de Caen après les bombardements de la seconde gue...
On holidays visiting old neighbors from Torschau in Austria in October 1947: Greeting scenes on the street. A border post between the American and Russian occupation zone in Obersuhl. Men in American ...