The black-and-white footage by Ernst Hirsch document the roof work on the Cathedral of St. Trinitatis or Catholic Court Church, carried out by master builder Hermann Ullrich at the beginning of the 19...
In the mountains of Austria, Norway and Italy, in France's Rhone Valley - Europe is harnessing waterways and building large power plants to supply much-needed, cheap electricity to Europe's revitalize...
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...
A central message of the modernization program, which was the ERP, lay in the promise that the increase in productivity would also, and above all, benefit the consumer via the resulting fall in prices...
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...
Winter 1945: emergency aid for victims and orphans provided by a charity organisation.
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...
Film extracts and sequences illustrating the French cinema and denouncing the taxes for the film industry.
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...
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...
In an alpine ski resort, children from different countries spend the vacations together with their parents. Their playful competitions in the snow are marred by difficulties of understanding and natio...
"Asylrecht" was made in 1948/49 as a commissioned work for the British occupation forces. It was shown in Great Britain under the title Report on the Refugee Situation, January 1949. In Germany, where...
Heilbronn after the destruction; reconstruction; housing construction; Swabian Regional Gymnastics Festival (1959). Film footage from 1945 to the mid-1960s.
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...
"Ci siamo mai chiesti chi sono, da dove vengono, come vivono gli ombrellari?". La vita solitaria delle donne di Secinaro, il 'paese degli ombrellari'. La giornata di lavoro di un ombrellaio raccontat...
The film describes the housing crisis in France (slums, insalubrity, development of tuberculosis, etc.) and presents then the solutions: the mass production enables the lowering of the construction co...
Traugott Schalcher, Patriotische Films und Filmpatrioten, Das Lichtbildtheater, 6.Jg, Nr.30, (1914). Bericht darüber, dass in Frankreich patriotische Filme einen Aufschwung erleben würden, während ...
Screenplay (excerpt) of "Das verbotene Paradies.
O. Verf.. „Auswüchse in der Reklame der Lichtbildtheater.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,1 (1913/1914): 24. Die Stadt Bamberg habe eine Verordnung erlassen, ...
Zensur, Oberprüfstelle O.601, 5 Akte 1519 m. (1629 m. vor Zensur), Quelle: Jahrbuch, Jugendverbot.
Beschluss der Polizeidirektion Hof: Die Erlaubnis zur Vorführungen von "Frauennot - Frauenglück" im Centraltheater in Hof wird aufgrund des starken Widerstands in der Bevölkerung zurückgenommen.
Letter from CCC to Kalanag, 20 October 1959 regarding the loan of snakes for the shooting of "Herrin der Welt. I. Teil".
Memo for "Herrin der Welt (Teil I)" on the shooting with ants in the "Berliner Aquarium".