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...
The film is preceded by the following message in the opening credits: "This is a translated version of a film produced under the supervision of the Information Control Division, Office of Military Gov...
Le film commence sur des plans généraux de la ville de Lyon puis pendant que l'on voit à l'images des illustrations de maternité d'école et d'enfants le commentaire parle de l'accroissement démo...
An insight into a social life taking place in public cafeterias told from a perspective of a journalist-director. It presents the venue of public cafeteria in contrast to a luxurious restaurant. It de...
In an alpine ski resort, children from different countries spend the vacations together with their parents. Their playful competitions in the snow are marred by difficulties of understanding and natio...
Heilbronn after the destruction; reconstruction; housing construction; Swabian Regional Gymnastics Festival (1959). Film footage from 1945 to the mid-1960s.
The film depicts the work of workers climbing tall cranes and scaffolds in large shipyard facilities from a base 100 feet high. Filmed both from below and from the scaffolds, these workers are shown i...
Report on the "Fines" operation which consists in fining everyone who is caught red-handed 900 francs, whether they are pedestrians or motorists. A competition to find the best policeman and the best ...
1. 1951: Inauguration of the newly constructed Nordstadtbrücke in the presence of Minister President Reinhold Maier / 2. 1970: Inauguration of the Kanzlersteg over the river Enz / 3. 1971: Renovation...
The film shows a landscape in which the railway represents the unifying process that delivers Italy to modernity; the film proposes itself as the poem of the renewal of the infrastructure on rails, th...
Two young couples spend their summer holidays touring and shopping in Rome, crossing the streets of the city centre with a brand new 1100 car.
Une femme et une voiture sont filmées lors des derniers préparatifs d'un voyage à l'étranger : Un arrêt à la pharmacie locale pour dire au revoir. Faire nettoyer la voiture dans une station-serv...
The celebration for the international workers' day in Rome. Activitists and representatives of the Italian Communist Party delegations from all over italy parade across the city center and gather in h...
Présentation de Bruxelles par Toone et sa marionnette Woltje. Le film veut montrer la perennité des traditions, en mêlant les images actuelles aux peintures, sculptures, tapisseries du passé. Il i...
A propagandistic piece on a re-populating of the border region of Šumava. It emphasises many job opportunities (e.g. work in factory, forestry, collective unions or Solo Sušice) and idealises the co...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...