In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
A film tracing the introduction of movement as a factor in 20th century art. It records various ways in which artists have tackled this development such as Gabo, Calder and Soto.
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
Romantische avonturenfilm waarin het meisje Betty, die over piraten droomt, en haar vader, een goedgelovige professor is, bedrogen worden door een stel echte zeerovers. Ze worden gered door een jongem...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Holidaymakers setting out from Glasgow, and travelling by train and steamer down the coast to Rothesay and Ettrick Bay. Includes tracking shots from tram in Sauchiehall Street.
A demonstration on how to use a Seine net for trawling. This film was planned by the Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, as part of their research programme on the efficiency of fishing gear. "Grateful ackn...
A look at the social and economic changes in Scotland during the 1950s, after the upheaval of the war. From the restoration of Iona Abbey to the development of new industries.
Nils Malmros earned both a Bodil and a Robert, Denmark's top awards, for Year's Best Feature Film for this subtle and intimate yet dramatically robust portrayal of a father and coming-of-age daughter ...
Irja von Bernstorff in "The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
Sangay Rinchen (on the right) in "The Farmer and I" (2013-16)
The film shows traditional farm life i the 1950s in a rural village in Western Norway before the land reallocation.
Images of Tübingen: images of the 30th Liederfest of a Swabian choral society in Tübingen. Another pageant on 30 July 1910. Elephants of Circus Charles bathing in the river Neckar. Another pageant. ...
Opdrachtfilm voor de Belgisch-Luxemburgschen Dienst voor Toerisme: "...réalisé pour être projeté au Pavillon Belge de l'exposition de Paris de 1937"("Hommage à Henri Storck p. 39). Twee pancartes...
A visual travel diary on the expedition led by Brondeel in 1934. This expedition to Belgian Congo, by truck, became a testimony to the social conditions of Africans during the colonial era.
Eerst wordt de toenmalige crisis "gedurende vijf jaar reactionair beleid" in beeld gebracht. We zien karikaturen van liberale en katholieke politici en van bankiers (mogelijk zijn dit tekeningen van F...
Duitse propaganda documentaire over de operaties van de U-boot U-35 tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Dit is een Franse versie, samen met de Britse versie, uitgebracht in november 1918. Het schip Parkg...
Promotiefilm van het Rode Kruis over de hulp die gegeven wordt aan Belgische krijgsgevangenen in Duitsland. Openingstitel: "LA CROIX-ROUGE DE BELGIQUE PRESENTE: AU SERVICE DES PRISONNIERS. FILM REALI...
Film on the diversity of habitations in Belgium in the fifties.