Meeting of displaced persons, especially from Torschau (today Savino Selo in Serbia): film footage from Kirchheim unter Teck, Winnenden, Waiblingen, Wolfratshausen, Neckarsteinach, Unter-Schönmattenw...
Family pilgrimage to Lourdes. Climb by cable car, then panorama over the valley and portrait of the family.
The film depicts a six-year period under the Nazi oppression in the city of Zlin. It displays bilingual signs, a lack of food and petrol. People are preparing for and protecting from bombing, they are...
The film shows a factory-made apartment and prefabrication workshops. It reminds the housing shortage and the insalubrity after the WWII. It underscores the need for industrialization of the building ...
The funeral, in Aubervilliers, on June 13, 1952, of Hocine Belaïd, a municipal worker mortally injured during the portest against Ridgway and who died on May 28, 1952. In front of the coffin with a h...
Funeral ceremony on May 6, 1945 in honor of the 19 people executed at Aubervilliers. After the speeches of Emile Dubois, general councillor of the Seine, survivor of Buchenwald, and Charles Tillon, mi...
This film document shows a ceremony of homage to the resistance fighters of the pharmaceutical laboratory Orga in Avignon, during which a memorial is unveiled. First, the officials (a prefect and a ge...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
Algiers solemnly welcomed the bodies of 135 Algerian fighters who fell in the battles of Italy, France and Germany during the WWII.
Report on the construction of the future "Palais des festivals" which will host the ceremonies and screenings of the next Cannes International Film Festival.
The trial of Marshal Pétain for high treason lasts four weeks in July and August 1945. The last days of the trial: the witnesses, the closing speech of the prosecutor, the pleadings of the lawyers, t...
At the start of the new school year, report on the construction of new schools and on the installation of temporary classrooms in prefabricated barracks to face the increase in the number of children.
A documentary film drawing attention to the dangers of pickpockets in public places - at a fair, in a cinema and on a tram. It uses reenactment, but pretends to be a hidden camera that observes what i...
The black-and-white film by Ernst Hirsch from 1959 was a commissioned production for the GDR's Deutsche Fernsehfunk. It shows the path that the art treasures, e.g. of the Green Vault and the Picture G...
The black-and-white film "Putti" is a collaborative work of the so-called amateur film studio of the Kulturbund Dresden from 1952, in which Ernst Hirsch acted as cameraman and the later DEFA director ...
The city of Dresden was bombed by the Allies during the night of the 13th to the 14th of February 1945. Canadian army captures Kleve on February 26th.
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 ...