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An overview of the principles and directives of India's post-independence constitution.

The activities of the Edison colonies in Cesenatico, Marina di Massa, and Suna. A few animated sequences and the narration of a child describing the images like a nursery rhyme characterize this documentary, which illustrates the company's activities outside the workplace. Beach games, puppet shows, and performances staged by children, aided by carefully chosen shots, narrate the colorful and carefree world of company-subsidized vacations.

The report tells the story of the work of the LOT Polish Airlines team, using the example of a passenger flight from Warsaw to Łódź.

A Yugoslav propaganda film.

Against the background of flocks of sheep at pasture, mules walking down unpaved roads, tractors in the fields, and isolated figures in a deserted village, a caption explains that Barbagia is a vast region in Sardinia; Orgosolo, Oliena and Mamoiada are villages of shepherds and the men spend most of the year far away, with their flocks. This is why the houses and the children are entrusted to the women, who cut the wood, work the fields and prepare bread, shepherds’ bread.

Documentary about a rubbish dump by Allen Willis, Philip Greene, and David Myers.

A Union Pacific production outlining the Big Boy locomotive and the history of the last great steam engine to rule the rails

Professional bowlers Lee Jouglard and Sylvia Wene give instruction to young bowlers, then show their skill at making difficult spares.

Documentary on oil exploration, the phase before drilling.

The film was made for the 100th anniversary of the creation of the railway in Russia.

Questionable educational short film about women.

Documentary film about an ethnological film expedition in Upper Guinea, Africa.

Detten Schleiermacher did not start making films until late in life. He was actually a typographer. With “Trab Trab” he made an impish attempt to create a synthesis between Dadaism and New Objectivity. The film is a precise and elegant account of a racecourse. It does so without narration or images of either horses or patrons; everything we see has been captured either pre- or post-race.

Political documentary film about the second year of party training of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic.

Part of the Look at Life Rank series reels. A look at the SOHO bohemian coffee bars of London in the 1950s.

A helpful little film that teaches you how to get what you want.

The life of Luz del Fuego, her artistic performances and involvement with naturism. One of the great Brazilian feminists and precursor of the Brazilian naturist movement.

Depiction of the harsh life in a rural town in Yamagata.

Short documentary. Plot unknown.

Documentary report from a journey through Equatorial Africa.

A short documentary.

Dutch sculpture in the late Middle Ages.

A boy tries invain to get aboard a fishing boat. Gazing over the water he imagines a life aboard.

Twelfth grade boys and girls from Kibbutz HaMeuhad gather in Givat Brenner and go on a trip. They walk in the Red Canyon and the southern Negev, until they reach Eilat, where they learn about the red sea and its special fish, and after dinner return home.

A BAFTA special award nominated documentary following the post-war construction of an immense oil refinery near Manchester in the UK.

This short exhortative feature film presents various forms of tourism, which was one of the post-war means of spending one’s time that was preferred by the regime. The viewer is guided by Mr Vosáhlo, an advocate of passive relaxation, who discovers the positives of tourist club trips in a dream.

Filmed in 1949 when Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr. took a journey to Tibet before the Chinese had moved in. It shows Tibet as it was then and, for that matter, as it had been for centuries.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

Slide about the danger of fires. A member of the SNB meets a group of pioneers in the forest, who teach them about the damage caused by fire in a friendly way around the campfire.

Number 73020, a standard Class 5 locomotive, has been in traffic for sixteen days, and goes back to the sheds for cleaning inside and out and a detailed mechanical check-up. A team of men, each with his special job, takes over. Before they are reassembled, the parts are inspected; then steam raising begins again. After vacuum tests by the crew, coal is taken on, water topped up, and less than twenty-seven hours after entering the sheds 73020 is back on duty.

In Salvador Dalí’s home movies, the 50-year-old Surrealist artist plays with a kitten, an animal skull, and a rake to entertain a friend filming him on the terrace of his villa in Port Lligat, Costa Brava, Spain.

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events that shaped the years 1900 to 1950. Complementing the vintage film clips are three dramatized sketches, delineating the romantic customs of three different points in time. These sketches are inadequately performed, and can easily be ignored. Ce Siecle a 50 Ans both preserved and provided celluloid material for scores of future documentaries.

Short impression of the work of fishermen on the Dogger bank.

Observational examples of the use of hypnosis.

Emphasizes the role of a citizen in a democracy and explains that, before making decisions, all citizens should get the facts, weigh the facts for all possible solutions, and decide on an answer that is for the greatest good of all.

This short follows a big city ambulance emergency crew, which sometimes includes a medical doctor, to car crash sites, fires, construction mishaps, a D.O.A., and the delivery of a baby.

A dadaist explosion that starts as a typical Hollywood travelogue of Stockholm and ends in the city's total destruction by fire and dynamite. This is a hilarious anarchist film; made by the then unknown Hulten now director of Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art. In a particularly subversive scene, the fire engine, arriving at a fire, goes up in flames.

Documentary about the ethnographic museum in Turčanský sv. Martin, which represents the way of life of the Slavs, living in what used to be today's territory of Slovakia.

Modern machines and marble sculptures – documentation of the works in the port of Caesarea alongside the antiquities of Caesarea. Rehearsals of the orchestra of the United Kibbutz and the National Kibbutz, towards a concert for kibbutz workers. With locally made playgrounds, the kibbutzniks celebrate the 24th anniversary of Kibbutz Naan. About 3,000 people came to dine and participate in the 17th conference of the United Kibbutz in Givat Brenner, which opened with a musical performance, created by Benjamin Pintos. Besides discussions about the future of the kibbutz, in which Yitzhak Tabenkin, Zeev Tzur, and Israel Bar Yehuda participated, an exhibition of the United Kibbutz’s artists was being held. Hakibbutz Hameuchad – Sifriat Poalim Publishing Group Bookstore opened in Tel Aviv.

Film made in support of a campaign by the Waterside Workers Federation seeking pensions for older waterside workers. It depicts the hardships veterans, particularly older workers as well as some of the health and economic issues they endure. Shows a delegation of older workers, led by the WWF's Jim Healy and Tom Nelson boarding a bus in Sydney and travelling to Canberra, where they gather outside Parliament House. Climaxes with a mass meeting of waterside workers at Leichhardt Stadium and concludes with a group of elderly wharfies walking along the Sydney docks.

A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933.

A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.

The newest trend of glueing colorful hairpieces onto your head to match your dress. You are in the mood to wear something red, you can easily add a red strand of hair to match it.

Artist Jackson Pollock is seen at work painting a large canvas, then later on painting on a large sheet of glass.

An insight into the restoration of ancient manuscripts at the Monte Oliveto monastery near Siena.

A BAFTA nominated documentary on the canals of England illustrated by a journey from London to Birmingham produced for the staff of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive.

A film by Marie Menken.

A Saturday morning for a family in a London suburb. An English language teaching aid for the Linguaphone Institute, presumably distributed abroad and for screenings in schools and in English as a Second Language classes.

A short documentary looking at aspects of the Korean war.

A promotional film for Sisu buses and trucks. Pictures of the vehicle assembly and how the vehicles are used in different tasks.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at methods of pig breeding in Denmark.