A documentary film made on the occasion of the opening of the V. I. Lenin Museum in Prague with the participation of President Klement Gottwald and the government. Thanks to various reconstructions th...
An animated film that tells the story of the Marshall Plan's economic reconstruction aid in the form of a fable. Emphasis is placed on breaking down trade barriers and building a community market. © ...
The film was shot on the occasion of the 4th World Festival of Youth and Students 1953 in Bucharest. It tells the story of a high school graduate who is supposed to work in production in a socialist y...
Documentary film about the reconstruction of the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague. It presents the history of the Bethlehem Chapel from 1391 through the Josephine period, when the chapel turned into a wareh...
Documentario sullo sviluppo urbanistico e sociale di Roma nel secondo dopoguerra.
1 - rassegna di topografie che illustrano lo sviluppo urbanistico di Roma dal 1871 al 1943
2 - immagini dei ...
Il cortometraggio racconta i lavori di ricostruzione del porto di Livorno dopo dieci anni dal bombardamento che lo ha distrutto e la vita marittima che riprende.
1 - veduta panoramica dalla colli...
President Einaudi visits the city of Trieste, once again Italian. President Einaudi and Minister Mattarella remember the fallen railwaymen with a memorial. The bridge over the Fella River is launched....
Catholic and folk parade, probably in Reims.
A film depicts a national aid campaign supporting a development of Slovakia as a rural and more traditionally oriented part of Czechoslovakia. It puts into contrast an industrial Czech land and a folk...
A documentary film comparing current / everyday and historical / noble aspects of Prague.
Around the Blaubach and the Waidmarkt, the war damage is still clearly visible in Cologne's Südstadt. Houses lie in ruins while people try to go about their regular lives in the post-war period. View...
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.
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.
Reconstruction activities in Heilbronn with focus on streets and squares (Part 1): Detailed footage from the years 1946-1953; in the early footage, mainly ruins and fallow land, then increasingly rede...
Based on ancient medicine's belief that a good life depends on good health, the film attempts to take stock of the state of health in post-war Europe and the successes that have been achieved in disea...
Displaced children in post-war Europe are eventually brought to Palestine. (Source: Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive)
Not only in contrast to an untroubled childhood in America but even in co...
Work began on the new Naples station. Electrification from Bologna to Venice completed. The locomotive of train 450 is fished out. In Milan, the flag is handed over to the ex-combatant railway worker...
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.
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...
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...
Phase of the doubling works on the Battipaglia - Reggio Calabria line. Inauguration in Rome of the first section of the Metro: Termini Station - Eur. A concrete bridge with pendulum suspension tested ...
The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch documents the blasting of the last remaining arch girder of the Carola Bridge on March 7, 1952. Shortly before the end of the war, on May 7, 1945, it had be...
In Maremma, the love story between two young peasants and the head of the family’s resistance to change are part of the background of a discourse on the need to modernize agricultural technology for...
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...