After the presentation of the slums in Pantin, the film follows the progress of the construction of 2 000 HLM housing. It aims to demonstrate how effectively public authorities, the construction compa...
The film is a collective oeuvre from the directors - all militants for the Communist party - depicting with original material and images from the anglo-american troops the phases of Liberation of Ital...
Around the Blaubach and the Waidmarkt, the war damage is still clearly visible in Cologne's Südstadt. Houses lie in ruins while people try to go about their regular lives in the post-war period. View...
The film starts with views of villages and traditional architecture of the "Basque Country, Normandy, Bretagne, Alsace. The voice-over raises the question of the number of single-family homes that cau...
First experience of a house displacement in Châtillon in order to build a deviation of the national road 306. The film explains in detail the technique used. This house is the first of fifteen houses...
A film about the badly damaged city of Hamburg, which is trying to rebuild its port with the help of the Marshall Plan and regain its pre-war role as a city of shipyards. A film in the "Strength for t...
An observation and a celebration of a rise of a steel factory (ČKD Libeň) from the war ruins. The film includes highly aesthetically approached scenes of ruin depiction. It narrates a story of a col...
An educative film depicting the issue of the improvement of health conditions in factories. It displays factory workers as hard working men who are now living in public housing projects close to facto...
The reconstruction of a viaduc between France and Germany, in Alsace.
Visiting former neighbors from Torschau (today Savino Selo in Serbia) in October 1947: Greeting scenes and men smoking cigarettes on the street. One of them is an American GI. Crossing the border betw...
Reconstruction in Heilbronn: city hall, train station, museums, etc. Film footage shot between 1947 and 1957.
Reconstruction in Heilbronn: schools and churches. Film footage from 1946 - 1957, before 22.02.1957.
A playful film about a Saturday: In the morning clean laundry has to be delivered to customers and hotels across the city. In the afternoon the friends can go to the fair and enjoy themselves. The fil...
Winter in Venice, a woman and her daughters in Saint Mark's Square feed pigeons.
The film shows the city of Caen after the bombing and focuses primarily on the first reconstructions. After the clearing of ruins, the public authorities are working on the reconstruction of permanent...
On holidays visiting old neighbors from Torschau in Austria in October 1947: Greeting scenes on the street. A border post between the American and Russian occupation zone in Obersuhl. Men in American ...
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 ...