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A love story inspired by a poem of Wilfred Rowland Childe.

A documentary feature explaining the principles of Schlieren photography, which makes any phenomenon that changes the refractive index of transparent substances visible.

A humble girl who works in an Austrian village post office discovers a dream world,including an aspiring violinist she is attracted to, on a trip to Vienna.Should the young lovers,to get money for a new existence, steal from her workplace?

A man finds a whistle bearing a mysterious Latin inscription, which, when blown, awakens horrors beyond human understanding. A decade before the BBC's version of M.R. James's supernatural classic came this chilling silent version from the amateur North Downs Cinematograph Society.

Accidents often happen when we least expect them. SImple carelessness, especially in the home, creates conditions in which an accident may occur. Prompt treatment can often reduce the seriousness of such accidents, and this film shows how essential it is that everyone should be fully trained in First Aid.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

A film by Max Zihlmann and Warner Borregaard

A man escapes from prison but he is seriously wounded and eventually becomes paralyzed. He receives help from a fisherman and his family.

Retired social worker "Petrucci" goes to live with a baker and his family with whom he soon becomes fond. When a film producer arrives and attempts to lure the young "Gina" it falls to the ailing old man to save her from temptation.

Zì Carmela, the owner of a famous restaurant in Naples, wants her niece to marry an English peer and doesn't like her love story with Carlo the son of a baker. When the English lord comes to Naples with his family she throws a magnificent party during which however class differences come out. Will this convince her and stop her from being castles in the air?

An Italian woman has a son with an African American soldier after World War II ends.

A woman meets a blind man who helped her during the war and has fallen on hard times since.

A portrait of the Scottish city of Aberdeen.

“It’s the most freedom we had on a film shot in Italy. We had to write with the camera, outside of any theoretical preconceived notions. My episode was a short satire of Italian male attitudes, a montage of heads turning to follow a girl”. (A. Lattuada)

A tour behind-the-scenes of a puppet theatre in Munich, set up by students.

A documentary looking at Britain's new diesel "Fell" 10,000 locomotive.

Follows a young boy's adventures at the Festival of Britain, after he acquires one of the free passes sent out attached to a balloon.

Documentary about the history of the Belgium-Congo route, made on the occasion of the thousandth flight.

Experiments with composite pendulums; study of variations in pendulum measurements resulting from changes in physical parameters such as frequency or the size and shape of the solid objects.

Michel, a young painter in poor health, enters the grounds of a château and faints when he sees a haughty young woman in the simplest of garb. The chatelaine, Eliane, takes care of him and calls in Pierre Fournier, a Parisian doctor. A disreputable Count Ostrowsky turns up to blackmail her. He is found murdered. But who's the killer? Pierre or Eliane? Quite simply Michel, who, before dying, showed his gratitude to the woman who had taken him in. Pierre and Eliane were living apart, but they were husband and wife. Such adventures unite them, this time, forever.

In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her family.

Part of BFI's "National Coal Board Collection".

A look at the cultural, historical, and urban development of Kassel.

BAFTA nominated BBC documentary about the acclaimed British artist L.S. Lowry.

A short film focusing on the account of a coaching tour told by the driver, who attempts to try to create a happy atmosphere and cement friendships.

Set in a Brussels restaurant frequented by regulars, the film tells the story of how the arrival of a charming young woman and the sudden appearance of an armed gangster disrupt the daily lives of the customers. The waiter, Jules, manages to disarm the thief by throwing a plate at him, and the customers work together to subdue him, while a deaf customer continues his meal, unaware of the commotion around him.

Two fairy godmothers struggle to make their godchildren not fight and love each other, but a third person intervenes and worsens the situation.

Monologue of an actor meditating about doom.

The famous singer Carlos Ojeda has come to Seville to hire some Spanish figure to accompany him on the show to be presented in Mexico. Negotiations with Dorita, The Cadiz, fail and Carlos is about to return to empty when discovered Reyes, selling beautiful flowers with a magnificent voice.

The nocturnal and secret rehearsal of some shepherds who dance barefoot on straw in a cow barn, the dances and songs of a pastoral, in Zuberoa.

An isolated man living in a cottage in the mountains one day discovers a mysterious unconscious woman and takes her in.

Birthright, which presents the work of the Family Planning Association, is a valuable record of the organisation of contraception and fertility services before the introduction of the contraceptive pill. But, more than this, in its filmmaking style it conveys much about the social attitudes of this era, and the spirit in which those services were conceived and delivered.

Man's need to create beauty, to interpret the world around him in image and color, has found expression in many forms, from the days of primitive culture to the present. This film surveys the work of Canadian craftsmen in many fields, showing how the changing Canadian scene has been their constant inspiration and how business enterprise today is increasingly using the skills of the artisan to enhance the decor of building interiors.