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Contrasting the idyllic images of a fisherman at work with city industry in the background

The guardian of the great dam reflects on the history and beauty of the valley, which was revitalized by the Edison power plant, and expresses his deep love for the disappearing traditions and society there. The filmmaker approaches his work by focusing on a theme, finding authentic places and people, and allowing them to become comfortable with the camera before beginning the filming process.

Juvenile magazine. Hints on table tennis, St. John Ambulance cadets in camp, a doll collection etc.

short by Clarissa Dreyer-Patrix

A ghost of Brighton's Regency past returns to explore his old haunts in a colourful yarn set in 1950s Sussex-by-the-Sea.

A report on the sculptures of Swiss sculptor Arnold D'Altri.

A devilish, surreal nightmare of bisexual lust.

Travelogue filmed on a cruise around Scotland's Northern Isles and Hebrides.

A refugee starts a business in Germany.

Documentary short (Kulturfilm) about East Frisia.

Features Paignton and its environs; visit to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth; the Torbay district. Devon; Paignton, Totnes, Brixham, Dartmouth; a cruise along the River Dart; a look at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth

A portrait of the Upper Rhine Plain.

A peaceful farming community of 220,000 people, millet beer, dolo, assault on the terrace of the deceased, a mannequin effigy representing the deceased is erected on the roof of the dead man's house. It is dressed in the clothes he wore during his stays in the country. The remains remained in France, but the Dogon people wanted to symbolically bury their friend, whose soul must rest symbolically among them. They placed another effigy representing the corpse on a stretcher and wrapped it in the blanket of the dead. The body of the deceased is covered with the skin of a ram that the priests sacrificed in memory of Griaule. The remains are transported to the dam that the professor had built. Mourners then gather at the burial necropolis above the dam.

An Italian movie.

A Donatello Silver David winning short documentary.

The people, among them an astonishing number of workers, react with visible anger to the sudden lack of matches – and threaten to go to the barricades. The problem is solved, of course. But does it mean the population’s anger is placated? Puppet animation director Johannes Hempel created this satire based on a draft by Wolfgang Kohlhaase – at the same time as the uprising of 17 June 1953.

Stereoscopic film produced for Shell.

Inspired by the surrealists, this short movie is made of found film reels bought from flea markets.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary about five-times world champion Juan Manuel Fangio who retired from motor racing in 1958.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating the movement of underwater plants and creatures synchronised with music

Study of posters and graffiti on the walls of Paris, using ellipses, brief shots and quick camera movements. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2000.

Mish Mish, the egyptian cartoon star, is now Mimiche, a french beret wearing young boy.

Tradition, dance and song, modern customs and development and welfare services in the Caribbean Islands.

Mrs Cunliffe wins the North West Area Festival Fare cookery finals. Manchester

A trip around England meeting various oddities and obscurities including a hair raising Taxi drive around 1950s central London.

Melodrama that tells the tragedy of a peasant family.

Highlights of Prince Philip's visit to Antarctica, Falkland Island Dependencies, the Falkland Islands themselves, Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena and Ascension Island.

Affectionate observational shots of toddlers, school age girl and very new baby.

Short film about money.

Painter Mr Stan Bult records the face make-up of clowns on eggshells, in order to ensure every clown is distinct: to safeguard the unwritten law that clowns do not copy the make-up of another clown.

Famed radio station RIAS (Radio In the American Sector), which brought news and entertainment to the people of Berlin and Communist East Germany, is featured in this report. In the western sectors of the city reconstruction is proceeding apace, thanks to Marshall Aid. Leading European artists entertain at a concert. Marshall Plan Administrator Paul Hoffman opens the American exhibit at the new West Berlin Industries Fair.

After Lucas discovers that his wife, Reina, is having an affair with his partner and friend, he divorces her and leaves Puerto Rico with their young son Fernando. Placing Fernando in a boarding school, Lucas travels abroad for some time. But after gambling away most of his money, Lucas returns to San Juan.

The extension of the electrification of the Southend line from Shenfield to Southend. The last steam train leaves Liverpool Street and makes its way for a new stage in the modernisation plan for British Railways. How it was done and the men who did it.

Experiments on the crystallization of various inorganic substances: crystallization from solution, crystallization from melt and vapour phase, mixed crystal formation, oriented growth, change from a metastable into a stable phase.

Based on Dickens' "Sketches by Boz" and George Cruikshank's etchings which illustrate the book. Verses of the "Broken-hearted Milkman" sung by James Watson, Ronald Johnson and Owen Swindale. The song "When the Moonlit Wave" by Christina Stephenson and Elizabeth Johnson. Raymond Townsend and Sylvia Budd speak the various Cockney characters.

Short film directed by G. H. von Koerber

The fire spirit uses the rainman's sleep to steal his magic rod and his magic water. He dries up all the water and causes great hardship for people and animals. When the fire spirit tampers with the count's well, he is overpowered and imprisoned. For his release, he promises the Count the bottle of magic water. Two children who are looking for water overhear the conversation. They learn that the rainman can only be awakened with the magic rod and the magic water. Andreas uses a trick to get hold of the water. Lies receives the rod in exchange from the vain wife of the fire spirit. The children search for the rainman. The fire spirit puts them in danger several times and tries to stop them from getting any further. Nevertheless, they find the rainman's cave and awaken him. Now the trouble is over, the fire spirit is defeated. It rains again.

A short by Iván Zulueta.

A documentary looking at the construction of the sphere to contain a nuclear reactor. The research programme carried out at the Thornton Research Centre to develop a lubricant to resist radiation.