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...
If there were an ideal-typical Marshall Plan film, "Village without Words) would come very close to it. Surprisingly, in Kurland's film the ideal takes the form of a hymn, a celebration of aid and rec...
Algiers solemnly welcomed the bodies of 135 Algerian fighters who fell in the battles of Italy, France and Germany during the WWII.
Report on the construction of the future "Palais des festivals" which will host the ceremonies and screenings of the next Cannes International Film Festival.
The trial of Marshal Pétain for high treason lasts four weeks in July and August 1945. The last days of the trial: the witnesses, the closing speech of the prosecutor, the pleadings of the lawyers, t...
This film presents at least two distinct settings: on the one hand, the film reports on the progress of a construction site near Caen. From the foundations of the buildings to the roofs, the different...
Destruction of the Eppendorf University Hospital during World War II and reconstruction in the post-war years.
The film starts with views of villages and traditional architecture of the "Basque Country, Normandy, Bretagne, Alsace. The voice-over raises the question of the number of single-family homes that cau...
First experience of a house displacement in Châtillon in order to build a deviation of the national road 306. The film explains in detail the technique used. This house is the first of fifteen houses...
An observation and a celebration of a rise of a steel factory (ČKD Libeň) from the war ruins. The film includes highly aesthetically approached scenes of ruin depiction. It narrates a story of a col...
An educative film depicting the issue of the improvement of health conditions in factories. It displays factory workers as hard working men who are now living in public housing projects close to facto...
Film about the professional ethics and everyday work of the newsreel cameraman. Committed to timeliness, he respects state secrets and the privacy of citizens. - Cameramen at work: on the roof of the ...
The film shows a landscape in which the railway represents the unifying process that delivers Italy to modernity; the film proposes itself as the poem of the renewal of the infrastructure on rails, th...
Two young couples spend their summer holidays touring and shopping in Rome, crossing the streets of the city centre with a brand new 1100 car.
A woman and a car are filmed during the last preparations for a trip abroad: A stop at the local drug store to say goodbye. Getting the car cleaned at a gas station. Changing cash at the exchange offi...