Work at sea on board the Franc-Tireur, a Bigouden trawler based in Concarneau. This documentary describes the hardships of the fishermen "20 days at sea, 2 days on land": nets that are thrown out acco...
This film begins by showing a gathering of workers taking place outdoors near the SECMO offices. A man speaks; the participants, seated on the grass, vote by show of hands on proposed motions. A secon...
A depiction of the World Youth Festival in Prague in July 1947. The celebration of the idea of multiculturalism through the scenes of Prague sightseeing, collective sport activities, visits to cultura...
A promotional film showing a high quality of spa offer in the Czechoslovakia. It stresses a role of the Church when a spa season begins and a sanctification is happening. It demonstrates a scientific ...
Postwar Stuttgart during winter. In a first part the camera shows a snow covered square and houses and buildings heavily damaged by the war. An excavator is loading rubble on trucks. A family takes th...
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...
Manufacture of components for Black and Decker tools. [Incomplete]
Shots of the "Empress of Britain" leaving Greenock for Canada and of the interior of the Parkhead steel works.
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 ...
The film is preceded by the following message in the opening credits: "This is a translated version of a film produced under the supervision of the Information Control Division, Office of Military Gov...
The film evokes the demographic increase in France and the housing crisis to which the new constructions are struggling to respond, with real examples and fictional cases.
The film begins with ge...
An insight into a social life taking place in public cafeterias told from a perspective of a journalist-director. It presents the venue of public cafeteria in contrast to a luxurious restaurant. It de...
In an alpine ski resort, children from different countries spend the vacations together with their parents. Their playful competitions in the snow are marred by difficulties of understanding and natio...
Heilbronn after the destruction; reconstruction; housing construction; Swabian Regional Gymnastics Festival (1959). Film footage from 1945 to the mid-1960s.
The film depicts the work of workers climbing tall cranes and scaffolds in large shipyard facilities from a base 100 feet high. Filmed both from below and from the scaffolds, these workers are shown i...
Report on the "Fines" operation which consists in fining everyone who is caught red-handed 900 francs, whether they are pedestrians or motorists. A competition to find the best policeman and the best ...
1. 1951: Inauguration of the newly constructed Nordstadtbrücke in the presence of Minister President Reinhold Maier / 2. 1970: Inauguration of the Kanzlersteg over the river Enz / 3. 1971: Renovation...