On Whit Weekend, millions of Europeans take to the streets to enjoy a short vacation in the spring air. The film shows the freedom of Western Europeans to organize their own leisure time, in stark con...
Letter from a French student to a German politician in which she presents him with her father's Cross of Merit. Flashback to the 1914-1918 war, Verdun, battlefields, cemetery. Pictures from the Ruhr a...
After various difficulties, an unemployed Italian finds a job at the “Aquila” refinery, which has been reconstructed thanks to the money and machinery sent by the United States through ECA. No dat...
Creazione di squadre di volontari per dissotterare le mine disseminate sul territorio italiano.
1 - cartello in testa a ricordo di quanti morirono nel tentativo di disinnescare le mine;
2 - ...
1 - Campagna ed abitato di San Vittore
2 - crepe e danni sulla torre campanaria e sulla pittura di un affresco
3 - un favo brulicante di api su una superficie dipinta raffigurante un volto s...
Il documentario illustra il lavoro di ricostruzione e di restauro di alcuni monumenti dell'antichità romana, di chiese, di mosaici e di affreschi del Lazio.
1 - panoramica sui Fori romani
Il cortometraggio parla della ripresa del porto di Genova a dieci anni dal conflitto mondiale e del lavoro marittimo che svolge.
1 - le immagini del porto di Genova entrando dal mare, molte navi ...
L'Italia bombardata. Chiese e monumenti distrutti dalla guerra - dal 1942 al 1944
1 - un edificio duramente danneggiato dalle bombe
2 - l'ingresso di una chiesa gotica danneggiata dal bomba...
The second episode of this monthly news program about the European Recovery Program describes events in four nations. Germany signs the ECA agreement, and ERP exhibitions open in Berlin and Düsseldor...
While on vacation in Paris, the vacationers visit Notre-Dame de Paris and walk along the Seine River.
Playful promotional film with elements of melodramatic reenactment shows the spa town of Karlovy Vary and its facilities for treatment of heart diseases.
A promotional film presenting the cities and natural landscapes of Czechoslovakia to a foreign audience. The framework of the film is a staged situation of projection for the audience in a non-theatri...
A propagandistic piece on a re-populating of the border region of Šumava. It emphasises many job opportunities (e.g. work in factory, forestry, collective unions or Solo Sušice) and idealises the co...
Family eating in a garden and then going to the beach
On the trip to Paris, Verdun is visited during a stopover. The vacationer walks through the busy streets and strolls past shop windows.
Construction of a housing estate in Bordeaux. The film shows the different phases - from the piece of waste land where children play until the constitution of the gardens. The comment emphasizes the c...
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...