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After the workers’ revolt on June 17th, 1953 this film disappeared in the archives until 1997.

City of Oulu celebrating its 350th anniversary

Karakorumu documentary film

A day in the life of the truck driver Tom.

Radar Station is a 1953 Canadian short documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the On The Spot series made specifically for television. The documentary involved an account of a visit to a radar station while it is involved in a simulated air attack, and is based on first-person interviews of the staff at the radar station. Squadron Leader Bill Lee of the Royal Canadian Air Force discusses the northern Canadian radar defense post's operations, revealing the little-known role of these isolated posts scattered across Canada's Arctic. Note: This film was distributed separately on 16mm for schools and libraries, qualifying it as a standalone documentary.

A film about the Catholic holy year celebration in the Vatican in Rome in 1950.

At the technical college for applied arts in Sonneberg, young toymakers learn to make toys that stimulate children's imaginations based on pedagogical experience.

Vistarama cameras capture historical scenes and all the beauties of Rome. Featuring shots of the Pope, a religious festival, a bike tour of the city, and other views.

Norrland in Sweden while the power plant dams are being built.

Fascinating -- and unintentionally funny -- experiments at Austria's famed Institute for Experimental Psychology involve a subject who for several weeks wears special glasses that reverse right and left and up and down. Unexpectedly, these macabre and somehow surrealist experiments reveal that our perception of these aspects of vision is not of an optical nature and cannot be relied on, while the unfortunate, Kafkaesque subject stubbornly struggles through a morass of continuous failures.

Explains the history of playing cards, which designs exist in which countries and how the design of the cards has changed.

The career of Maria Callas was just a bit too early and too brief to receive full and satisfying video documentation like that now being accorded to such singers as Renée Fleming and Luciano Pavarotti. This black-and-white televised recital (Callas's Paris debut) took place at the Paris Opera on December 19, 1958 when television was still in its infancy. We might wish that it had happened earlier, when her voice was in better condition, or later, when video recording technology was more advanced--so that, for example, we would not have to take the narrator's word that Callas is wearing a red dress. But this is probably the best available Callas video recording, and her fans will welcome it warmly. Visual elements were as important as the vocal dimensions in her art.

"Our Cities Must Fight" is a civil defense film that was produced for the U.S. government to illustrate the importance of not abandoning urban centers during an atomic bombing. The film cautions that doing so would make it easier for the invading "enemy."

A fast-paced rhythmic impression of dancers, musicians and sportsmen at a highlands event.

Swimming movements of a common seal under water, propulsion through hind extremities.

A production of the association of American Railroads outlining the wonders of America's rail system.

Famed explorer Lewis Cotlow leads a hunting and archaeological expedition into Africa.

1959 Argentinian short

In 1954, White Father Eric Weymeersch was commissioned to film Palestine’s remaining biblical sites before they vanished forever. Wandering like a pathfinder through a Holy Land in turmoil following the creation of Israel, he had to navigate intense suspicion and threats between two hostile communities. From filming the first kibbutzim to capturing endangered historical ruins, Weymeersch urgently documented a shifting landscape. This unique religious reportage stands today as an invaluable, gripping historical document.

The second film by Cecilia Mangini is based on the words of neo-realist writer Vasco Pratolini. It alternates between documentary and the reconstruction of autobiographical moments to paint an image of the Florence of his youth, and to show us his take on the effort of growing up and the risk of falling in love.

Dramatized documentary, providing guidance on traffic safety for children.

Excessive speed is the number one killer on the roads: one-thrid of all road deaths are caused by it. By excessive speeding drivers risk their own lives and those of others.

A young pioneer shows his little sister how to build birdhouses and feeders for the birds to make their lives more bearable in winter.

This film observes, in a Montréal public school, the teaching of English to immigrant children. To thousands of children arriving in Canada from Greece, Italy, France, Germany or Japan, English is "a foreign language." Under able coaching they begin to understand and even enjoy the vagaries of the English language.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing highlights from the Farnborough International Air Show.

Musicians and jazz lovers come to Zakopane to relax and make music together. Kalatówki is the location where the jazz campsite takes place. Andrzej Trzaskowski's band “Jazz Believers” is the star of the film.

Highlights from the Farnborough Airshow of 1952.

A lyrical evocation of times past and a reflection on the inevitable passing of time through the recollections of an old fisherman.

François Truffaut's father Roland Truffaut was passionate about mountains, but also cinema. He filmed his hikes, edited the footage and sometimes showed them at the French Alpine Club of which he is a very active member.

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working class, and from enemy of national-socialism to the first president of the German Democratic Republic.

A look at life in MacKenzie District in Canada's Northwest Territories.

This propaganda film was supported by US Information Service (USIS) and presents Bangkok as a peaceful and developing city at the centre of the “free world,” a narrative pushed forth to counter the threat of the Cold War. Political motivations aside, the film shows Bangkok as a capital on the cusp of modernity that still preserves its traditional values, and there are scenes that evokes nostalgia such as the ballroom dancing at Lumpini Park Auditorium, Chalermthai Theatre on Ratchadamneon Avenue, Dusit Zoo, Don Mueng Airport, the studio at Thailand’s first TV channel, night scenes of downtown Bangkok, and many more.

A day after the Shomron operation, during which one of the members of the Nahal settlement in Ashlim died, the settlement soldiers held a military ceremony in the presence of the Minister of Internal Affairs, followed by a dance and singing performance. After the show, the settlement members and their guests dined while the desert dust filled the air, reminding them that there is still much work to be done to flourish the desolation. At the art center, established in Ein Harod by the painter Haim Atar, an inspiring exhibition of the painter Candido Portinari, dedicated to the battle against war, is presented. The field festival was celebrated on the last day of Sukkot in Kibbutz Heftziba, marking the work and harvest of the field.

Highlights of the Mardi Gras festivities, held every year in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A documentary on Hemel Hempstead, the most advanced of the new towns.

Continuing the study of the normal tasks performed by a permanent-way gang, this film deals with the maintenance of switches, common crossings and obtuse crossings. These are the fundamental units from which all track layouts, however complicated are built up.

The fifth edition of "Terras fönster" reporting from Oslo 900 years. Two episodes with Povel Ramel that sings and spits together with Martin Ljung and Brita Borg. Miss Sweden 1951, Anita Ekberg, visits Stockholm, inaugurates Children's Day in Humlegården. Art, the sculptor Einar Luter card in his studio, and fashion. Report from the factory community Harg in Nyköping municipality, with Lars Johansson, who played a guard post in Nyköping's guest ban, and his wife Marianne. Musical cavalcade with Povel Ramel, Brita Borg and Martin Ljung.

A dramatized documentary about juvenile delinquency, its causes and prevention, juvenile prison, and the care, education, and adaptation to civilian life of released juvenile prisoners.

A German Film award winning short documentary.

KTLA makes the first telecast of an atomic bomb detonation. Klaus Landsberg led the engineering feat on short notice that established microwave links that had previously been considered impossible with existing technology. The station fed the coverage to the nation. The broadcast, fed to all three networks, was also notable in that it was fed via a 140 mile link - the longest ever attempted at that time.

Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and its necessary adaptation to modern life with plans, drawings and images, particularly Paris, whose revolutionary development dreamed of by Le Corbusier is exhibited here. Its first projects will remain at the stage of a model: the modernization plan for the city of Algiers. Some will be created by other architects: Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro, UN Palace in New York. From the post-war period in less than 10 years, Le Corbusier created large housing units in Marseille, Nantes, a chapel in Ronchamps, a factory in Saint-Dié, a town in Chandigarh in India. Through diagrams, the architect presents his theory of the "radiant city", the mathematical key modulor of his work as well as his project for reorganizing the countryside, industrial and urban cities into a grouping around a cooperative system.

A portrayal of the Mexican Day of the Dead consisting of still shots and narration. Deals with the special objects and events surrounding the annual Mexican celebration of “All Souls Day”. It is not only a rich flood of folk art, but a view of the way that the Mexicans have come to terms with death. Searched out with the help of Alexander Girard and a moving guitar score by Laurindo Almeida.

Old Village in the New Age is a unique documentary about Näsby and Frövi. The film was shot in 1954 - 1955 on behalf of the Näsby Local History Association, at the same time that Frövi municipal community received "status" as a town. We meet the Frövi residents at work, at school, in the community, at home and at some of the year's holidays. The renovation of the church in 1953. We also get an insight into the business world of the time and several interesting meetings with the people of the village. As a local history film, it is very comprehensive and the production was very far-sighted and can be considered a valuable document of the time, not least from a film technical point of view