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Short film by Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville.

In 1951, the 3rd French expedition to the Himalayas set out to conquer Nanda Devi (7,800 m). The attempt to cross the ridge between the main peak and Nanda Devi East resulted in the death of two members of the expedition. Expedition leader Roger Duplat and Gilbert Vignes disappear on the ridge somewhere below the main peak. Tenzing Norgay is part of a support team on this expedition; he and Louis Dubost climb Nanda Devi Est in search of the two missing people. A few years later, Tenzing discovered that Nanda Devi was the most difficult climb he had ever made.

Animated film produced by les Films Jean Image, Paris, France, 1957

1958 Shell trade test film following the progress of the 1958 Alpine Cup rally across southern Europe. First showing: 22nd October 1959 (Experimental BBC London Local Tests). Final showing: 7th November 1968.

The life of the pilgrims in Lourdes and the cases of healing recorded by the Bureau of Medical Findings.

One of the rare documentaries that allows the viewer to get into the intimacy of a monastery. We are indeed - through the experience of a novice - made to discover the Servantes de Jésus-Marie, their code of practice, their rules and the rhythm of the convent.

Art documentary

A lyrical composition of sculptural fragments of the body is celebrated for its precise framing, editing and animation techniques that explores the connections between abstract shapes, sensuality, and erotic attraction.

This musical comedy produced in 1953 for the General Government of Algeria, features the comic trio composed of Rouiched, Mohamed Touri and Sid Ali Fernandel, accompanied by the orchestra of the master of the Algiers Chaâbi El Hadj M'hamed El Anka, the singer Fadhéla Dziria, Mustapha Skandrani on the piano. Some scenes were filmed at the Summer Palace (the current Palace of the Algerian Presidency, called the People's Palace). André Zwobada, the director, will play an important role after the independence of Algeria in 1962, in the production and preservation of the first Algerian newsreels.

Mish Mish, the Egyptian cartoon star, is now French and named Mimiche. Mimiche strolls into town atop his donkey with his dog in tow. A local takes issue with the noise they make.

A strike has broken out in a big factory in the North of France. Two workers, Robert and Etienne, go through the experience in a different way. Etienne, who has worked there since the start, is still influenced by the time when workmen and their bosses found an agreement directly. Unlike him, his young friend believes in the power of labor unions. He even goes to Paris to attend special classes in trade unionism.

A bear, a rabbit and a fox decide to form a band and play for the animals of the forest.

A short film which explores various paintings from mental patients.

The film consists of a series of sung aphorisms and Lettrist poems, a compendium of almost all the phonetic works François Dufrêne had produced up to that point.

Short film by Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville.

A student of the Ecole de France d'Outre-Mer has just been appointed assistant administrator in Majunga, Madagascar. During a study trip, he discovers the most different aspects of the province where he will serve. He crossed the island and discovered its various agricultural productions, local life and industry.

Short French documentary on volcanos.

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.

Jean-Louis, a sixteen-year-old boy, comes to spend his vacation in the Gard region with his uncle, Philippe de Givray, who owns an old manor house. He meets a friend of his relative's named Danny, a delightful redhead who occupies the room next to his.

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

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...

A unique chronicle of Salvador Dali’s constructivist outrageousness. As you know, during this period, Dali began, as the newspapers wrote, “shaking the apathy of the modern world, making himself a paranoid-critical object”: he looked into the eyes of a rhinoceros or exhibited a loaf of bread eighteen meters long. In the Paris Ice Palace, he demonstrates a plastic ball: "Projection of intrauterine vision ...". The shooting was initiated by the publisher Joseph Faure. Enjoy Dali in his silver-plated alien costume, with his mustache and cane, and a general phlegmatic carnival of madness.

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.

Black and white film featuring Mish Mish Effendi, commissioned by the Royal Automobile Club against the misuse of horns.

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.

Robert Ménégoz’s film depicting the struggles of French dockworkers in the winter and early spring of 1950 is meant to evoke the feelings of insecurity, exertion and danger of this profession whose rights were not sufficiently reflected in post-war France. At the same time, the heroic image of dockworkers is meant to mobilize against American policy, the Marshall Plan, German rearmament and the war in Indochina. Banned by the censors in France, the film won the Grand Prix for Documentary at the 1951 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

A very unusual portrayal of a "sound" from the time it escapes from a singer's gaping mouth to the time it is captured on a film strip.

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

An essay on allegory as a new form of rhetoric for cinema.

A couple brings home a painting of a flamenco dancer . At night the young woman gets out of the painting. And this is the beginning of a great orgy .

Documentary made on demand of Peugeot, it is in a way a propagand communication by the company

Mimiche feuds with his nameless unshaven nemesis.

Documentary on Madagascar by J.K. Raymond-Millet with music by Henri Sauguet and commentary by Michel Bouquet.

On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the signing of the Bardo Treaty, this propaganda film celebrates France's modernizing action in Tunisia.