Der New Yorker Musiker Robert scheint so etwas wie eine Pechsträhne zu haben: Künstlerisch steckt er in einer Schaffenskrise und materiell sieht es so finster aus, dass er sogar aus seiner Wohnung g...
At the end of the war, many bridges have been destroyed and many cities are isolated. Shipyards start everywhere in France. The main issues are the lack of manpower and of materials. Rebuilders have t...
Parade of regiments of the French and American armies, on the "canebière" at the time of the liberation of Marseille in 1944. The crowd is agglutinated all along the avenue, people applaud the soldie...
A kindergarten group walks hand in hand on the sidewalk and past the camera. The kindergarten teachers make the children look into the camera. At Rathenauplatz the camera pans across destroyed houses....
I 1885 får William Cody - bedre kendt som Buffalo Bill - den strålende idé at bruge sit berømte navn i showbusiness. Han skaber et stort vild-vest-cirkus og cementerer sit flotte ry som præriehel...
The documentary film describes the everyday life of the Polesine people - that is the inhabitants of the lowlands of Ravenna, next to the Po river's delta. A dramatised portrait of the problems and th...
The film documents the first public appereance of the leader of the Italian Communist Party Palmiro Togliatti since the attack on his life on July 1949. His participation to a "Unità Festival" held i...
The oft-debated "Questione Meridionale" (Southern Issue) is here tackled from the perspective of the Communist Party. he As the film extensively shows how poverty and backwardness in the southern regi...
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 ...
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The film opens with a cableway trip. We travel along the Sorrentine Peninsula. The images of some panoramic views of the coast follow the daily images of the tourists walking on the streets or women w...
Magical Mystery – or: The Return of Karl Schmidt Adaptation of Sven Regener's eponymous novel. Germany in the mid-1990s: Karl Schmidt is released from a psychiatric clinic: The artist, once an avid ...
On the 150th anniversary of the Carabinieri Service, this documentary commemorates the service’s history, founded on the motto “For Centuries Faithful”. A celebration of Carabinieri histor...
Magical Mystery – or: The Return of Karl Schmidt Adaptation of Sven Regener's eponymous novel. Germany in the mid-1990s: Karl Schmidt is released from a psychiatric clinic: The artist, once an avid ...
Documentary on the 20th anniversary of the Symphonic orchestra.