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Vital true sex facts and scenes formerly restricted to medical books, this film was billed as an illustrated lecture on film.

Documentary on safety and skill of truck drivers.

The film tells the history of the Bulgarian town of Nesebar from the moment of its foundation (2500 years ago) to the present day and acquaints with the numerous ancient monuments preserved on the territory of the town.

A travelogue recording a holiday trip from Britain to Norway.

A scenic panorama of the Tyrolian wonderland that strikes many thousands of visitors each year with the immensity of its grandeur.

Joe Wilding is the hotshot car salesman at the local Ford dealer. The year is 1950 and the new Fords have just come out. He's assigned to teach the new salesman how to sell cars. The movie follows Joe thru a typical day of calling leads, dropping off business cards, fishing for new prospects, talking to potential buyers in the showroom and working a deal. The new guy starts to get the idea and by the end is sufficiently confident and motivated he proposes to his girlfriend. She accepts.

The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s humorous, buoyant style led him to be one of the country’s most promising filmmakers. But after being denounced in 1956, he was expelled from the Kinostudio and sent into internal exile. In 1967, Stratoberdha directed a local theater play in which the economic five year plan was placed in a coffin. He was then jailed for the next two decades. Urime Shokë Studentë! is one of the surviving documentaries of Viktor Stratoberdha’s all too short career.

Documentary film about the Czechoslovak natural science group's expedition to Iceland in June 1948.

For three years, West Berlin is dependent on electricity from the Soviet zone. "City out of Darkness" describes the conditions before, during and after the Berlin blockade.

Stressing the need for civic sense this documentary pleads for better understanding of other people's problems and the sharing of amenities and services offered by society. This film revolves round a man whose every action is motivated by selfish interests, which ultimately lands him in an unfortunate situation.

This documentary shows the early ideas about how nuclear war between the USA and the USSR could look like. It is made purely from the US side and takes place mostly in the US military command and control bunkers. The movie tries to be serious, however it is overly optimistic about the USAF chances to win the nuclear war.

Documentary.

Documentary film, featuring newsreel segments from the life of Swedish king Gustaf V, put together due to his death on 29 October 1950.

The rural French Canadian way of life is observed on l'Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. The farmer grows food on his land. His family, from son to grandfather, gives him a helping hand. On Sunday, he rests and attends church with the other villagers. Many picturesque scenes of the coutryside and of the harvest are shown. The monument on the site of Jacques Cartier's landing and worship on his second trip up the St. Lawrence is also shown.

A bright outlook in Birkenhead for a thriving British enterprise.

Documentary short on a park consisting of 16 terraced lakes in the thick forested mountains of Croatia, then a part of Yugoslavia.

Young Jeff learns the error of his ways.

Anna Sokolow’s choreographed reinterpretation of a bullfight. Sokolow plays the matador, an audience member, and the doomed animal.

Marine biological documentary

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at advances in the treatment of infectious diseases.

About everyday life and the recurrent dangers in the big city.

The familiar chicken egg conceals the profound mystery of life.

Record of the life of the Peulh Bororo people who live a nomadic life between the Sahara and the Niger River.

A relic of Belgian colonialism in Africa, made with the collaboration of Catholic missionaries and the then King of Rwanda, who was toppled by a revolution during the production.

Promotional film introducing self-service long-distance dialing using a prototype service in Englewood, New Jersey. Demonstrates how direct dial and the new area code system enable callers to make contact instantly without operator assistance.

In this Shell-sponsored short, the celebrated British poet narrates this travelogue about the Avebury stone circle and nearby burial grounds.

A film about filmmaking.

A documentary film about a large international competition organized in February 1950 in the Tatras, in which athletes from nine nations participated in all disciplines.

Post-war South Korea with the history of the communist advance across the 38th parallel.

A German Film Award winning short feature.

Documentary about the Rímac River. Directed by Emilio Herman. Produced by José María Roselló.

Short documentary about neglected children who end up in streets, and gradually get involved in the world of crime.

The Na-khi people of Yunnan demonstrate the ritual dance for the propitiation of suicide, expressly for Rock to film. The ceremony features dancers moving around an altar containing paper dolls representing suicides and doing ritual battle with demons. Title cards explain the steps of the ceremony. Produced in 1954 using footage filmed by Rock in 1928.

This Traveltalks entry roams through the northern end of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and makes a short visit to the Upper Peninsula. We start with a ride in a dune buggy on the Sleeping Bear sand dunes. Then it's on to Traverse City, the cherry capital of the world. In Harrison, we visit with Spikehorn Meyer, who lives with the bears that roam freely on his large natural preserve. Our visit ends with a look at Mackinac Island and Sault Ste. Marie, with emphasis on water sports and the water transportation industry.

Christ Among the Primitives is an 1953 Italian language short film directed by Vincenzo Lucci-Chiarissi. It examines primitive sculptures and traces the evolution of religious motives in early man. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

A short film on early 1950s Iran.

This episode perpetrated the great Spaghetti Harvest Hoax on April Fool's Day 1957. The filmed report appeared to show a Swiss family harvesting their annual crop of spaghetti which was growing on trees on their farm, talked about the efforts to eradicate the Spaghetti Weevil and discussed the selective breeding that had been required to produce spaghetti of a uniform length. Many viewers believed what they saw and contacted the BBC to enquire how to grow their own spaghetti tree: the advice that they were given was "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best".

A film about the Rembrandt painting.

Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.

A housewife, toiling in the kitchen, goes to explore the Työtehoseurua exhibition held at the Messuhalli, which showcases gas stoves, refrigerators, washing machines and Asko furniture.

Consumer goods fair in Tampere 1-9 July 1950.

Kids help around the farm on the South Devon coast.

A short film by J.K. Raymond-Millet and Monique Muntcho shot in Madagascar in 1950. Discovery of Madagascar by a child who goes from town to town, from province to province, and whose journey allows him to see the various faces of the Big Island such as dances, folk festivals, etc...

Regarding the whereabouts of known materials, only the image band remains. Presence in Luanda and other cities in Angola of the Sport Lisboa e Benfica football team, during a tour through Africa.

A graphic map of Wales. Narrator speaks of the way Wales "treasures the tale of its past like the story of a family."

The initial stages of the construction of an oil refinery on the Isle of Grain, Kent, and its impact on the local farming community.

A documentary about the hard work of the workers in the reconstruction of the Bieszczady road.

Short film by Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville.

A documentary about the first Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. The song “Moscow Nights” was written by the composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy to the lyrics by Mikhail Matusovsky especially for the event and later gained fame all across the country. In the movie it is performed by Vladimir Troshin, a Moscow Art Theatre actor.

A man with a cancerous growth seeks treatment in a medical facility.