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.
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...
The films shows a political rally which took place on March 10th 1949, as the young communist and socialist activists of the Alleanza Giovanile Italiana (Italian Youth Ally) gathered together on the s...
Impressions from one or more trips through Europe in the late 1940s (1947?), visiting many cities and countries. Despite visible war damage, the first part appears as a classic tourist film with short...
Ce document anonyme est constitué de simples vues muettes et partielles de l'hommage qui fut rendu à Staline à Paris, après sa mort (le 8 mars 1953). Siège du Comité Central (CC) du Parti Commun...
"A love story, not only, it probably revolves around passion, but also around dear money." - (Lovers); "In 1950, 340 - 350,000 apartments were completed, in them can accommodate 1.5 million residents,...
War destruction in Pforzheim; reconstruction of the city: including the Nordstadtbrücke bridge, the Bahnhofsplatz square, the Schlosskirche church, the city center with new stores, school and housing...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Masaryk addresses his colleagues abroad and presents a political situation in the country right after the war (1945). The film includes the condemnation of the Nazi...
A description of various ways in which the Labor Day, on May 1, 1951 was celebrated. The contrast is built between nature and mechanical labor, which is highlighted. The series of parades in Prague ar...
Le film explique l'électrification de la ligne Paris-Lyon et présente ses avantages, tant en termes de trafic ferroviaire que pour l'économie nationale. Les différentes phases des travaux sont dé...