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...
Prise de Courcelles (Oise, Picardie) en 1918
Reims en ruines (Département Marne, Champagne-Ardenne)
Un 210 éclate - Faubourg d'Amiens á Arras (Nord-Pas-de-Calais)
Dixmude en ruines (Diksmuide, Belgique, Yser, Flandre-Occidentale)
4045 - Marne 1916 - Fosse commune
7301 - Argonne - La Chalade (Lachalade, Département Meuse, Lorraine)
3217 - Albert Cathédrale (Albert, Département Somme, Picardie)
Main de Massiges (Département Marne, Champagne-Ardenne)
The desertification of the French countryside takes tragic proportions, for instance in Goudron. The film presents the solutions to avoid the concentric madness of cities: modernization of agriculture...
"I monumenti italiani e la guerra" is a documentary showing the vast war damages on Italian art heritage, as well as the long but mostly successful restoration process that followed. It was realised b...
Austrian Headquarters for Jewish Agency, man at table, in headquaters, people boarding buses, through Austria, Sign "Camp CH.N.Bialik, street Jewish Agency Palestine Immigration office, sending goods ...
After having joined Italy again in 1954, the city of Trieste witnessed the flourishing of trade port and an increase of the employment rate. Some of its former citizens left Yugoslavia and moved to th...
To manage the increase in the number of school children and students, classrooms in prefabricated materials have been installed in schools and colleges which have become too cramped.
Le Havre is the most destroyed harbourg on the continent. While the war is over, men clear the ruins to make room for the new docks. Commentary on aerial views of the port and the excavation and recon...
Through Charley's journey, the cartoon seeks to underline the disadvantages of traditional cities and the need for new, functional and hygienic cities.
This cartoon seeks to persuade us of the di...
The documentary shows the efforts to rebuild, firstly in a temporary and then in definitive, the principal railway stations and lines to reconnect physically and economically the entire country.