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...
The film explains the electrification of the Paris-Lyon line and presents its advantages, both in terms of rail traffic and for the national economy. The different phases of the work are detailed, fro...
The destruction of the Caronte viaduc in 1944 by the German army deprived the region of vital maritime and rail links. In 1947, before undertaking the final reconstruction of this bridge, a provisiona...
Apprentices's celebration at the Vélodrome d'hiver (parade in front of the official stand and folk entertainment) ; exhibition on urban planning ; reminder of the importance of respect for safety for...
War damage in Cologne. The camera pans across ruins but also piles of rubble and largely cleared areas. The whole area appears deserted, inhabited only by a few women and children.
Paris, March 10, 1945: from the Gare de Lyon to the Père Lachaise cemetery, the funeral of Pierre Semard, shot by the Germans on March 7, 1942. Raymond Tournemaine, general secretary of the C.G.T. Fe...
Visit in the lubéron. At the exit of a church, priests. Traditional and religious festival in the street. Folk parade, young girls and boys are in costume. The inhabitants parade in company of the pr...
Meeting of displaced persons, especially from Torschau (today Savino Selo in Serbia): film footage from Kirchheim unter Teck, Winnenden, Waiblingen, Wolfratshausen, Neckarsteinach, Unter-Schönmattenw...
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 ...
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 ...