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 ...
When West Berlin’s electric plant is finally rebuilt, the city lights up – on its own power for the first time. The film stresses the importance of US aid to maintain the city in its struggle a...
The film describes the housing crisis in France (slums, insalubrity, development of tuberculosis, etc.) and presents then the solutions: the mass production enables the lowering of the construction co...
Film about the professional ethics and everyday work of the newsreel cameraman. Committed to timeliness, he respects state secrets and the privacy of citizens. - Cameramen at work: on the roof of the ...
The film shows a landscape in which the railway represents the unifying process that delivers Italy to modernity; the film proposes itself as the poem of the renewal of the infrastructure on rails, th...
Two young couples spend their summer holidays touring and shopping in Rome, crossing the streets of the city centre with a brand new 1100 car.
A woman and a car are filmed during the last preparations for a trip abroad: A stop at the local drug store to say goodbye. Getting the car cleaned at a gas station. Changing cash at the exchange offi...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
An excursion into the periodical permanent exhibitions put on display in the Czech National Museum in Prague told through a story of flirting young couple. The film follows the history chronologically...
Set of seven film documents shot just after the signature of the Blum-Byrnes agreements, between the French and American governments, authorizing the wider release of American films on French territor...
On Whit Weekend, millions of Europeans take to the streets to enjoy a short vacation in the spring air. The film shows the freedom of Western Europeans to organize their own leisure time, in stark con...
Letter from a French student to a German politician in which she presents him with her father's Cross of Merit. Flashback to the 1914-1918 war, Verdun, battlefields, cemetery. Pictures from the Ruhr a...
After various difficulties, an unemployed Italian finds a job at the “Aquila” refinery, which has been reconstructed thanks to the money and machinery sent by the United States through ECA. No dat...
A film gives a tour through a history and a cultural heritage of the town of Telč. It praises its historical architecture, namely the middle-age and Renaissance epochs. It frequently employs travelli...
An experimental building site near Paris was built just after the WWII. Inaugurating the policy of experimental sites led by the Ministry of Reconstruction and Town Planning, it reflects the will of t...
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 ...