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A brief portrait of Tokyo.

Young Monique leaves the preventorium where Doctor Delaunay has lovingly cared for her. A painful return. Her mother Denise lives with Eugène, a handsome, disreputable young man who's easy to please and, on occasion, won't hesitate to steal. He hangs around Monique, excited by her freshness, until the day he is shot on suspicion of the disappearance of a mobster. Monique is reunited with Dr Delaunay, much to the satisfaction of her guardian Gilbert, known as Patte-en-moins, owner of the local bistro.

Educational documentary which extols the different forms of labor, and its importance to Puerto Rico’s progress.

A river symphony and an early example of stereoscopic film made about the River Thames.

Early abstract 3D film by animation master Norman McLaren and collaborator Evelyn Lambart.

Toni and his sister Rita travel alone by train to visit their grandma in Bamsdorf, eight stations down the line...

The film opens with general views and shows building works and Sherpas loading up. Scenes of threshing and a campsite, with Sherpas and huts. A settlement is then shown, including people weaving. Scenes of walking in towards the mountains and climbing in the foothills. More threshing scenes and the film ends with shots of the mountains and village.

Daniel Farson looks at mixed marriages as part of his People in Trouble programme.

Bristol's historical buildings, streets, docks, churches, bomb ruins, and industries, her great traditions and associations with famous citizens.

In 1950, Jean-Claude Sée produced a singular and daring experimental, one of the rare films which constitute a transition between the urban symphonies of the end of silent films and certain experimental practices of the 1960s such as the apocalyptic found footage films of Bruce Conner. Moreover, Aube embodies a form close to both “pure cinema” and a cinematographic essay.

Documentary short

A short documentary about the transportation of goods and livestock by train around the UK.

Christian has just returned home after failing his A-levels. His father, incensed by his failure, asks a neighboring teacher to give him lessons. But Christian falls for Simone, the teacher's cousin. Jealous, Christian's girlfriend Bichette arranges for the father and the teacher to learn everything. Christian is sent away and reunited with Françoise, the house's pretty maid, who had been dismissed. Bichette has had it.

Travel film about South Tyrol, the Dolomites and Lake Garda.

A woman returns home from a mental hospital, to find his husband has used her case to write a play.

Based on a true story from November 1943 : the Resistance manages to publish a fake edition of the pro-German newspaper 'Le Soir', put on sale by surprise in the newsstands and stuffed full of parodic articles pouring ridicule upon occupying forces. The film faithfully traced the course of this humorous and enterprising attempt to wake up the populace, filling out the basic plot with irreverent patriotic gags.

Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood, one of England's greatest crooks, and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as good as Dad. Alas! Harry has a kind heart, and it is only out of respect for the old man that his father's gang tolerates him. When the gang decides to go for the Maddox jewels, Harry is given the job of "inside man" will his good nature get the better of him once again?

A record of a winter journey, when a farmer decides to move his whole stock by rail from Yorkshire to Sussex.

Daniel is a quite talented singer, whose parents run different businesses. They're very gifted in their jobs: the father is a barber, and the mother has a restaurant and a good hand for cooking, where Daniel helps working as a waiter. One day, the producers of a record label discover Daniel and give him a chance to work in radio and television. Nevertheless, his family will have to leave their works and their old life, in order to help Daniel in his new artistic career. Chui, Daniel's manager and a pretty woman, will help and advice him in the conflictive world of the show business, full of people waiting to take advantage of the young promises.

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus services and the Calais to Dover cross-channel ferry: these are the subjects of this early BTF production covering a world of transport co-ordination now largely vanished.

This Government-commissioned documentary was intended to reflect the modernisation of French industry. However, in Franju’s hands it became an ode to fire and a fascinating portrayal of industrial architecture.

After fleeing from East Prussia, waitress Ännchen has found a new home in a West German wine town. She looks after a young war orphan. One day his missing father turns up. He falls in love with Ännchen.

Fiete is nine years old and loves fishing. Each afternoon he spends hours sitting at a creek in his village. On one of these afternoons the peace and quiet is suddenly disturbed when two rowdies catch and kill a neighbor’s drake. The boys bribe Fiete to keep quiet about the incident, and he agrees out of fear. However, Fiete feels uneasy about keeping his secret, especially when the neighbor’s daughter starts desperately searching for the drake.

Realist melodrama set in Zurich. In the old town district, people are concerned about Mäni, the child of a toilet attendant, who is growing up without a father. Postman Jucker appeals to the boy's conscience and protects him from unjustified accusations. After Mäni's mother dies, Jucker, who has become the child's guardian, takes Mäni into his home. Mrs. Jucker does not accept the boy and accuses Jucker of forgetting their own deceased child. Mrs. Jucker flees to her sister's house. Mäni also runs away.

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

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.

Skittles enthusiasts gather at the Parc and Dare Unionist Club, in the Rhonda Valley, Glamorgan, for a local ‘needle match’. There are lots of flat caps and pipes!

Border Inspector Reitlechner fights in vain against a stubborn gang of smugglers led by the pretty innkeeper Retta. When a colleague is shot during an operation, suspicion falls on Reitlechner.

An "Abstract (psychedelic) animation with beeping SFXs. Technicolor flowers, drawings in silhouette and zany interpretations of the BP shield logo." - BP Video Library

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

This short unedited film largely documents travel, tourist attractions some of the people encountered during Sir Clarmont Skrine’s time in the region. Highlights within the footage are the spectacular mountainous scenery to be found in Iran, Tomb of Cyrus, Persepolis, the shrine of Imam Reza, Imam Square, Chehel Sotoun, Shah Mosque, Tehran Bazaar, Ctesiphon, the Tomb of Darius and the Blue Mosque.

Art history student Ursula discovers Frankfurt am Main after she starts living there.