"I monumenti italiani e la guerra" is a documentary showing the vast war damages on Italian art heritage, as well as the long but mostly successful restoration process that followed. It was realised b...
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 ...
Austrian Headquarters for Jewish Agency, man at table, in headquaters, people boarding buses, through Austria, Sign "Camp CH.N.Bialik, street Jewish Agency Palestine Immigration office, sending goods ...
To manage the increase in the number of school children and students, classrooms in prefabricated materials have been installed in schools and colleges which have become too cramped.
Le Havre is the most destroyed harbourg on the continent. While the war is over, men clear the ruins to make room for the new docks. Commentary on aerial views of the port and the excavation and recon...
Ce dessin animé cherche à nous persuader des inconvénients des villes traditionnelles et de la nécessité des villes nouvelles, fonctionnelles et hygiénique.
After having joined Italy again in 1954, the city of Trieste witnessed the flourishing of trade port and an increase of the employment rate. Some of its former citizens left Yugoslavia and moved to th...
The documentary shows the efforts to rebuild, firstly in a temporary and then in definitive, the principal railway stations and lines to reconnect physically and economically the entire country.
Prise de Courcelles (Oise, Picardie) en 1918
Prise de Courcelles (Oise, Picardie) en 1918
Prise de Courcelles (Oise, Picardie) en 1918
Meuse - Bivouac d'attillerie 1915
Alerte aux gaz avec le klaxon
La chasse aux sous-marins
Paris en querre - saucisses dans le Luxembourg (Jardin du Luxembourg)
Le châtelet, un carrefour miné (Tcheslet, Belgique, Wallonie)
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.