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A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace the one destroyed during WWII.

"An 80-year-old priest who religiously reads L´Equipe because of his commitment to cycling is a good start to a film. If, in addition, that priest is a defender of smuggling of which he confesses to be a faithful practitioner and unleashes, among other things, his opinions about how the Basques love, we are before a great personal and collective portrait. With great success and cinematographic sense, Hubert Knapp dedicated one of his chapters in the French Southwest entirely to an interview with Jean Elissalde "Zerbitzari", priest born in Ascain, screenwriter and member of Euskaltzaindia who did not drop the bible in one hand to play ball with the other. The Parisian filmmaker meets and portrays him in his beautiful Gerezieta parish, a small world that reflects his universe." Punto de Vista Film Festival. Jean Elizalde was also the writter of Andre madre's film "Gure sor lekua".

Film by Werner Malbran.

Dr. Hartwig has settled in a small town as a doctor. One day the magical Ursel Daxenmeyer appears in his practice. Dr. Hartwig falls in love with her and wants to marry her. Beforehand, however, various obstacles have to be cleared out of the way. A very special obstacle is Ursula's father, Eusebius Daxenmeyer. He deals with mixed goods and is also a hypochondriac, that is, an ill patient. No one can tell him his imagination that he is deadly ill.

A BBC Television film recalling the part Alexandra Palace has played in British television between 1935 and 1954. It shows the erection of the first transmitter, the building of 'A' and 'B' studios, and introduces scenes and excerpts from early television productions and outside broadcasts.

Two third-rate actors, longing to be famous, try to make the headlines by feigning a murder.

In a desolate, destroyed landscape - bearing now irrelevant traces of technological society - a man and a boy try to find their way under a fierce sun.

A BAFTA nominated documentary investigating the development of the castle.

A father murders his son's girlfriend.

First episode of the television series "The Vise" (1954)

This short film can be considered as notes on the origins of the situationist movement; notes which thus naturally include a reflection on their own language.

Queen Elizabeth's younger and only sibling, Princess Margaret, went on a 5-week tour of Mauritius and East Africa in September-October 1956.

Beautiful Vienna during the Austro-Hungarian era. Lixie, a court councilor's daughter raised in a middle-class family, has fallen in love with the piano teacher Toni. To make a good impression on Lixie's strict father, Toni urgently needs a job. Then chance comes to Lixie's aid. At the Hotel Sacher, she meets Archduke Peter Ferdinand, the very man who could help Toni. But the Archduke only has eyes for Lixie. An unsuitable love affair develops between the two, which quickly escalates into a political scandal in Vienna's high society.

An insight into the training of recreational pilots.

A report on the Film Academy in Ulm, Germany

German TV-movie.

Short by Wolfgang Becker.

Documentary from British Transport Films

Early 18th-century Krakow: The poor student Simon works as a travelling musician in order to finance his studies, and the Polish freedom fighter Jan is on the run from Saxon troops. They meet in the carriage of Count Kovalska, where they fall in love with the Count’s daughters Laura and Bronislava.

Short movie about a theater for children placed in Villa Borghese, one of the most beautiful places in Rome.

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.

A bright outlook in Birkenhead for a thriving British enterprise.

Short film by Harry Kümel based upon a poem by Jean Cocteau.

Colour promotional film with a contemporary music soundtrack made to launch the Ford Anglia.

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

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

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

A German Film Award winning short feature.

A wealthy and jealous merchant tries to lure a young girl away from her boyfriend by offering to pay to stage small singing concerts for her.

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.

The final short in the Secrets of Life series.

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".

Back from America, famous singer Charles Trénet, nicknamed "Le Fou Chantant", makes the conquest of a bombshell called Anita. He tries to persuade his young friend Georges to follow them to the French Riviera but the pessimistic gloomy finicky fellow won't do it. Instead, he decides to go on holiday with his newly married wife but the trip , due to his grim mood, is no bed of roses. In Juan-lès-Pins they finally meet Charles, who is so infatuated with Anita that he has forgotten to meet his old friend Henri Poupon, the Meridional actor. Thanks to cheerful Charles and to the sunny climate, Georges relaxes and things improve in his relationships with his wife. The couple can applaud Charles who is giving one of his concerts there before he flies back to the USA, on Anita's arm this time.

A child, the fruit of an unfaithful relationship, is adopted by his mother's brother.

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...

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

Short film by Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville.