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Cars are shown being tested on proving grounds. There is also a brief look into seat belts, and a look into car racing.

A historical GDR review of the events of the November Revolution in Germany in 1918.

One of the first detailed photo reportages about the country and its people, customs and traditions, the economy and transportation in Indonesia. Skillfully inserted travel sketches from the Suez Canal to Singapore break up the documentary.

Tembo is a 1951 American documentary film which follows the travels of hunter Howard Hill through equatorial Africa.

Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Canberra, the National Capital of Australia, is a city which has been planned; a place where modern living is enriched by a lovely setting. But the hustling young city of today is expanding and developing, and there is emerging the pattern of the proud city of tomorrow.

Promulgation of the Yugoslav Republic, held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on November 29, 1943.

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line. A nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ex-LNER Class A4.

A film reportage on countryside laundresses by Jože Bevc.

Using documentary material and the testimony of convicted agents, the film attempts to prove that the West Berlin "Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit" was an espionage and sabotage organization. As a militant and anti-communist organization, the KgU supported the resistance against the SED government in the GDR from its founding in 1948 until its dissolution in 1959 and, among other things, founded a tracing service for Western citizens deported to the Soviet occupation zone.

Circus of Sheng Changfu

The misbehaving public performs for the camera in a half-hour miscellany of misdeeds. In a behind-the-scenes look at the hour-by-hour operation of a large metropolitan police force, this film presents a fair sampling of what keeps Toronto's police officers busy twenty-four hours a day.

An explanation of social security, survivors’ insurance and other benefit systems, encouraging workers to file for their social security cards.

It records the festivities that, at the time, took place in the heart of the city, at the meeting of Rua dos Andradas and Avenida Borges Medeiros.

Follow-up to 'The People of Sunagawa'

A synthesis of the life and soul of Portugal, with the sea, the river, the mountains, the plains, and the people who dance and work, cry and laugh, are born and die. From the Minho to the Algarve, distant places, sometimes difficult to access, were chosen for their beauty and picturesque, to figure in a register that allies realism to poetry?

An educational film about how to behave at pedestrian crossings. Featuring Leif Juster. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

Documentary short on cancer.

A documentary featuring the Vickers "Valiant" aircraft in flight and on the ground.

Experimental film showing film clips of a garden, with birds chirping for the soundtrack.

Photographs, rare film material and dynamic editing, portray the triumph of socialist ideas and the way symbolically Yugoslavia moves toward the future dreams of the generations.

Document about the history and production of Czech porcelain.

This short doc is a novel look at driver safety and the consequences of a change from Jekyll to Hyde behind the wheel of a car.

Through three loosely connected stories centered on individuals, Huisken and Menegoz depict the changes in urban and rural areas as well as the development of remote regions. A traveling tinker from Old Beijing observes the industrialization taking place around him. A young couple from the village of Minh Tu Sian harvests rice using traditional methods but is already celebrating their wedding in a modern way. Engineering graduate Tschao Lin travels to Shanghai by ship up the Yangtze River to help build a railway line. In the finale, a difficult stage—bridging the wild river—is completed.

A documentary film about the Yawata Steel Works.

Field workers in Puerto Rico want to have a night school.

Classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold fields over 3000 km north of civilization. Still photographs juxtapose Dawson City today against its bustling height in the gold rush.

A Berlinale FIPRESCI Special Mentioned short musical documentary.

Rehabilitation of children and adults at the Käpylä Rehabilitation Center.

Get an up-close look at daily life among the Longhouse People with this short documentary from 1951. It depicts the rites and rituals of this Indigenous community, including a rain dance, a healing ceremony, and the celebration of a newly chosen chief.

A short film made with the film end rolls of 'Du côté de la côte'.

A documentary about a housing situation of Nowa Huta workers. They weren’t lucky enough to get a flat in clean and modern estates. It’s a ‘black series’ documentary from the fifties.

This documentary explores the wildlife of the Pacific Ocean, termed The "Quiet" or "Calm" Ocean by Ferdinand Magellan.

As many as 700,000 Soviet schoolchildren attend New Year's Eve celebrations at the Moscow Kremlin in 1953.

A film about the youth prison in Uppsala, which focuses on one intern's alienation and anxiety.

A day and night in the life of three alcoholic derelicts: "and the meek shall inherit the earth - six feet of it".

The history of American transportation from the horse and buggys of yesteryear to the progression of the motor car.

A lady from the Bell System explains how to use a rotary dial telephone.

Documentary filmed in Talara by Pedro Valdivieso and José Denegri. Produced by Franklin Urteaga.

Instructive pictures that show how to try to solve aging care.

In this short 20 minute black and white Belgian documentary, the director, Paul Haesaerts, visualised Pablo Picasso’s flow of imagination when the Spanish painter drew on large glass plates in front of the camera – like a live show of a greatest artist in performing a few masterstrokes that outlines a dove, bull, flower, man or woman and whatnot. (This technique of filming his painting from the other side of the glass plates precedes The Mystery of Picasso (1956), another famous documentary film on Picasso). (via http://www.kubrickians.com/2012/07/08/visite-picasso-1949-paul-haesaert/)

A look at the developments in farming in the late 1950s.

A film about municipal governance and administration in Oslo in 1951. We follow the planning process for the redevelopment of the slum area of Vestre Vika. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

This ethnographic film sends us the image of the man who eats, a stark look at Belgium. We spend about one-eighth of our days eating. Luc de Heusch films these repetitive gestures that seem trivial, yet reveal so much of a particular culture and a civilization. From morning to night, from the market installation to dinner, from the daily and fast meal to the feast, the ethnologist is interested in all social classes. Originally, an attempt of cinematographic ethnography, neutral and distant, intended to define the Belgians by the way they eat. In fact, Luc de Heusch films his contemporaries as if they were Papuans.

Short film about the Swabian Alb

In 1951, the 3rd French expedition to the Himalayas set out to conquer Nanda Devi (7,800 m). The attempt to cross the ridge between the main peak and Nanda Devi East resulted in the death of two members of the expedition. Expedition leader Roger Duplat and Gilbert Vignes disappear on the ridge somewhere below the main peak. Tenzing Norgay is part of a support team on this expedition; he and Louis Dubost climb Nanda Devi Est in search of the two missing people. A few years later, Tenzing discovered that Nanda Devi was the most difficult climb he had ever made.