The sequence takes place in Saint-Dizier (new town) (today called Vert-Bois) during the inauguration by Maurice Lemaire (Minister of Reconstruction) of a housing estate of 216 apartments that will soo...
The documentary color film footage by an unknown filmmaker shows social events and urban developments in Dresden in 1959. The hustle and bustle in the harbor of the Weißen Flotte (White Fleet) below ...
From 1943, Marseille is occupied by the Germans who destroy some neighborhoods and build fortifications. After the landings in June and August 1944, the Germans undermine the port and begin to destroy...
A biographical film depicting a life of K. H. Frank. Frank's childhood is presented through a set of personal documents and photos. His alliance with Hitler is emphasised. Documents manifesting his cr...
A day in a suburb of a big city. From dawn to dusk the suburb, a city in the city, lives its particular life full of charm and poetry. It is a panorama of human characters who live on the edge of a bi...
A fictitious archaeologist speaks with passion about the history of housing, from the caves to Haussmann and to the WWII, which created a terrible housing shortage. After this fatalistic conclusion co...
An insightful survey of European agriculture five years after the war. Though much has been achieved in restoring production, ever-more- efficient methods must be found to feed Europe’s growing popu...
The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch documents the completion of the external reconstruction work on the Zwinger, which was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945. The film goes into det...
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...
Catholic and folk parade, probably in Reims.
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...
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
In the mountains of Austria, Norway and Italy, in France's Rhone Valley - Europe is harnessing waterways and building large power plants to supply much-needed, cheap electricity to Europe's revitalize...
A central message of the modernization program, which was the ERP, lay in the promise that the increase in productivity would also, and above all, benefit the consumer via the resulting fall in prices...
Film production supported by the British occupation forces as part of the Re-Orientation Program. Set in post-war Germany, the film tells the story of the Stadtmeier couple, who are on their way to vi...
Winter 1945: emergency aid for victims and orphans provided by a charity organisation.
The film is fully in the tradition of ethnographic documentary. The description of the Somali capital refers to the same cinematic medium, between the white of the ancient architecture of different pe...
This series includes twelve films that report on economic successes and progress in various countries of Euopa. All but the film on France have been preserved. © 2002 Linda R. Christenson
Film extracts and sequences illustrating the French cinema and denouncing the taxes for the film industry.
A plane lands in Berlin, passengers leave the plane and pass through customs, suitcases are unloaded. Ride by cab or bus into the city. Chancellor Adenauer on the bus to Berlin. Stream of refugees in ...