"I monumenti italiani e la guerra" is a documentary showing the vast war damages on Italian art heritage, as well as the long but mostly successful restoration process that followed. It was realised b...
Film production supported by the British occupation forces as part of the Re-Orientation program. A radio reporter for women's issues provokes in his broadcast with the suggestion that women should co...
Film extracts and sequences illustrating the French cinema and denouncing the taxes for the film industry.
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...
Il documentario illustra l'impiego dell'alluminio, definito "il metallo del secolo", nella costruzione di edifici ad uso abitativo, di alberghi, di impianti sportivi
1 - panoramiche su alcune cit...
During the grape harvest, two women trample the grape in Montmartre and pour the juice in the bottle. On its label, Truman and Stalin clink glasses.
Reopening of the Eiffel Tower to the public after the WWII and the German occupation.
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...
1 - Colonne di fumo sulla città inquadrata da lontano
2 - macerie in viale Regina Elena
3 - passanti e curiosi con le biciclette a mano
4 - la Clinica Medica ed altri istituti di sanit...
1 - immagini della città del Vaticano
2 - San Pietro
3 - soldati fanno la guardia a piazza San Pietro
4 - carta della città, vengono tracciati i punti dove sono cadute le quattro bomb...
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...
After the liberation of Alsace, inventory of Alsatian villages and images of the reconstruction.
The reconstruction of a viaduc between France and Germany, in Alsace.
Several people died from cold during the harsh winter of 1954. The appeal by Abbé Pierre to help the homeless causes a collective awakening to poverty in France and an unprecedented wave of generosit...
A monthly report from Europe about three different countries. The first installment of the series presents the aid and cooperation of Germany, Denmark and Sweden. © 2002 Linda R. Christenson
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...
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...
Heilbronn after the destruction; reconstruction; housing construction; Swabian Regional Gymnastics Festival (1959). Film footage from 1945 to the mid-1960s.
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...
Winter 1945: emergency aid for victims and orphans provided by a charity organisation.
The French government introduces a rental tax intended to finance the improvement and maintenance of housing.
The documentary shows the impressive work of doubling the Battipaglia - Reggio Calabria line, with the construction of the new track but also the construction of new bridges, tunnels and buildings. Th...
The film outlines the state of transportation in post-war Europe and the progress being made in rebuilding and modernizing roads, airports and the rail network. National initiatives and Marshall Plan ...