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.
Daily production report No. 14, 07 August 1959 on the shooting of "Du bist wunderbar".
Brief des Landesverbands der katholischen Männervereine und Kasinos in Bayern e.V. an das bayerische Innenministerium, mit der Bitte die Vorführung von "Frauennot - Frauenglück" in jeder Form unmö...
Daily call sheet for 29 July 1968 for the shooting of "Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten".
Hermann Häfker, Berliner Höhe, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV,6, (1914/1915), S. 127-129. Das Kino sei auf einem Tiefpunkt angelangt. Kriegsfilme wie der besproc...
Aubinger, Josef: „Die Kinematographie in Kriegszeiten.“ Der Kinematograph 398 (1914): 3-5. Artikel, der die mögliche Zukunft des Kinowesens im Krieg beschreibt. Die wirtschaftliche Lage der Kinos...
Screenplay (excerpt) of "Gestehen Sie, Dr. Corda!".