The city of Warsaw is in ruins. A ceremony commemorates it, in the presence of Boleslaw Bierut and of the French Ambassador.
A presentation of how life of pacients in the spa town Poděbrady looks like told through a perspective of a patient. The film deals with the cultural and sports life of the city and its history.
A film about the badly damaged city of Hamburg, which is trying to rebuild its port with the help of the Marshall Plan and regain its pre-war role as a city of shipyards. A film in the "Strength for t...
Roger Gillet (1916-1974), a mechanical modeler by training and later head of a carpentry-cabinetmaking company, was a member of the PCF in the 20th arrondissement of Paris // In the mid-1950s, he took...
The ruins left by the war will be replaced by cities and buildings designed by architects. We already see some of their achievements, compared to the monuments of the past.
Living conditions are difficult for many elderly people in this winter. This episode denounces that French people who worked all their lives, fought during the WWI and gave their sons during this last...
The foreman at the construction site for a new dam in the Austrian alps explains to the audience, why electricity provided by water power will be key for the economic recovery and technological modern...
The latest electric locomotives, the 2D2 5500 combines comfort, speed and safety. The film follows the production, the routing and the transformation of the electric energy necessary for modern electr...
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.
Millions of Europeans, refugees and deportees, return to their homeland. The film shows the Americans' organized transfer of displaced persons, as well as the arrival in the Soviet zone of hundreds of...
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 ...
Car ride, woman collecting berries on the roadside, debris in Halle (Saale), streetcar, Leipzig tower, market church. Viaduct in Gräfenthal (Thuringia). Woman playing with goats.
A "School for Officers" is established at the historic "Ecole Militaire" in Paris. Staff officers and senior officials from all 14 NATO countries are trained with the aim of forming an effective defen...
The documentary black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch shows Sorbian Easter riders on their procession from Bautzen to Radwor/Radibor in April 1954. The film also shows securing work on the roof of t...
L. B., Berliner Filmneuheiten, Der Kinematograph, 667, (1919), S. 25-27. "Kaiser Wilhelms Glück und Ende" sei noch am Vortag der Uraufführung vom Innenministerium verboten worden. Der Film stelle ei...
[Lustbarkeitssteuer für Kinos], Der Kinematograph, 424, (1915), S. 35. Bericht über Beratungen zur Lustbarkeitssteuerverordnung der Stadt Essen. Grund sei die hohe Zunahme der Zahl der Kinobesitzer ...
Hansen, Fritz. "Photographien als Reklamebilder für Kinotheater" Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,2 (1913/1914): 40-42. Hinweise auf das bestehende Urheberrecht in ...
Daily production report No. 19, 03 September 1964 on the shooting of "Das 7. Opfer".
Rheinische Filmgesellschaft , Der letzte Untertan, Der Kinematograph, 645, (1919), S. 2. Werbung, die darauf hinweist, dass Filme wie der beworbene erst aufgrund der Aufhebung der Zensur möglich seie...
Costume excerpt for "The Indian Tomb", part of "Chandra" played by Walter Reyer.
Daily production report No. 34, 16 February 1966 on the shooting of "Lange Beine - lange Finger".