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One of the great number of fire's causes is a human factor. The lack of caution of the immediate producers, as well as of the persons in charge for the whole security in the factory, can often be a cause for great fires.
A film that talks about the development of the many agricultural branches in valley of Bogdanci, making a comparison with the situation in this part of the south of Macedonia before the irrigation system was built.
A look at post-war fairs, exploring their popularity, and diversity of entertainment.
An aching joke about a boy's plight to get a fallout shelter for Christmas. Winner of the Screen Directors Guild Award 1962; just released, after the passing away of bureaucratic restrictions. –E. E.
A short sports documentary exploring a resort with many sports champions in attendance.
A tense, compact adaptation of Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Bridge (Polish title Most) recreates the surreal final moments of a condemned man awaiting execution during the American Civil War. In Majewski’s hands, the familiar twist — reality folding into illusion — becomes a lean, visual meditation on death, perception, and the fragility of hope.
The bell pepper and Shata are friends, the latter is orphaned, and he has taken his pepper and he works with him in the circus. His neighbor Pepper loves his mother, Chita, who works on one side, waiting for a better chance in the circus. Despite their love, Hassan is impressed by the stupidity of the circus when she comes, carrying a rose from her husband Hassan, and showing him good to work with him, the wife feels jealous, and advised him to go up together to the mind, on the other hand succeed pepper in his job as a runner, and earn a lot of Money, as he succeed in taming the Tigers, which draws attention to Bahia, and decides to marry him.
A documentary about the kamikaze, the brave pilots who gave their lives for their beloved country.
Re-edited version of Farokh Ghafari's Jonube shahr without director attribution.
This typical Mexican musical comedy was released at a time when two of its actresses, Ana Berta Lepe who appears in a few numbers and Evangelina Elizondo who is featured as a woman with problems in the romance department, were involved in serious, separate scandals. While these scandals may have promoted attendance at its opening, audiences will really respond the most to the songs in this film, everything from "St. Louis Blues" to "Tipi-Tipi-Tin." The songs outweigh the plot itself, and do much to alleviate the otherwise weak storyline.
A shy snowman is smitten by a little girl and refuses to leave her when spring comes.
A human hand throws a box of cigarettes on the chessboard. It has a picture of a house and the sun on it. The chess king organized a military campaign against a foreign body. Chess rooks shoot. Chess knights are riding. The march of the troops goes to the end of the chessboard. The king decides to take over the surrounding space. Black and white squares cover one picture, a funny prankster, and even a globe. A human hand sweeps away the chess pieces and collects them in a box.
Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)
A description of Östergötland, Sweden. Its history, landscape, buildings and industries.
Soundtrack: Claude Debussy's LA BOITE A JOUJOUX.
Experimental montage based on the filming of an essay by Pablo Neruda, while he recites a verse of the "ode to the simple man".
Anthropological record with aspects of this festival, when it did not yet have the subsequent production levels.
At the seafront garden, the members of The Worker's Youth Union and the members of fascist organization are fighting. Absorbed in their feelings Vladko and Aneto have nothing to do with those events. Things at Aneto's big wealthy home look very different from Vladko's small house huddled in the yard. Kiril, Vladko's elder brother, is anxious about Vladko who should have been at the rally, but is writing poetry instead. Aneto and Vladko are happily dancing at the school-leavers' ball. Kiril has killed a German officer. The ball breaks out. Aneto has disappeared in the confusion. Vladko goes to look after her. A group of people armed with clubs and knuckle-dusters beat him cruelly because he is Kiril's brother. Kiril has joined the partisans. Vladko is seriously ill and dies. Kiril and his comrades continue the struggle.
Adaptation of a Chinese opera.
Rare fictional short, written by Remco Campert, in the veins of existentialism. About a young man who is in love with the girlfriend of his best pal.
Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, consisting of many members, cannot get a home on their own. Kéri, the chairman of the local authority, promises to help him on the condition that if he does not, they may move in to his villa at elegant Pasarét. Nothing happens, therefore the Kárász family takes Kéri by his word. From this time on, tumultuous scenes and frequent quarrels take place in the villa between the two families.
A modernized version of the fairy tale about Red Riding Hood, in which a little pig goes on her way to her grandmother. During a hike through the forest, a bad wolf attacks her.
A father plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy old man, but she is in love with a cloth peddler
This 1960s instructional film released by Castle Films for the home market, demonstrates various camera tricks performed by “Wee Gee,” or “Weegee,” the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a famed photographer and cinematographer who worked in Manhattan and New York City’s Lower East Side.
A film medallion of actor Zdenek Stepanek.
Covers the first-ever test won by England in the Caribbean, from an overcrowded Sabina Park, featuring authoritative narration by British-Guyanese commentator Ernest Eytle.
A short film from 1960 by Piotr Kamler.
Three friends—one thin, one fat, and one short—each take up a job in order to achieve their goal of marrying the girl they love. At first, however, they fail to succeed. Then, luck favors them: by chance, they acquire good jobs and great wealth, and after a series of comedic adventures, they finally win over their beloveds
Taking a look at more than just DIY in the home - we look at a DIY town situated in the Cotswolds and a DIY narrow gauge railway in Wales.
It illustrates the operation of a large bird catcher (uccellanda) with a net and bait, characteristic of northern Italy and in particular the Veneto region. Preparations for bird-catching nets, training to call numerous birds, laboriously prepared tricks to deceive migratory birds and catch them in the net.
Part of the Chinese Historical Ethnographic Film Series (1957-1966)
A hugely groundbreaking and influential live recording, that set the tone for generations of Blues artist afterwards. Performed during a tumultuous time at the Newport Jazz Festival, where just the day prior police used teargas and water hoses to control a drunken, riotous crowd, this extraordinary, historic set includes old blues standards as well as new Waters compositions. Despite the somewhat dangerous and unruly atmosphere at the festival, Waters and his electric blues band delivered an exquisite, confident performance. Featuring an all-star band with the likes of the legendary James Cotton, Otis Spann and John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters at Newport 1960 would go on to become one of the most revered albums in modern day Chicago blues history.
A short animated New Year's wish distributed by the National Screen Service.
Educational documentary by Robiros Manthoulis, Fotis Mestheneou and Iraklis Papadakis, shot under the archaeological guidance of Yiannis Miliadis, Director of the Acropolis Museum, who is also the narrator. It is a wonderfully consistent mapping of the Acropolis space, in the objects, the spaces, the iconography, the connection with history and tradition. From the opening moments and the presentation of the complexity and specificity of the location of the Acropolis, and through the presentation of every impressive detail, but also of a wider artistic context, the film takes us on a journey through time connecting the centuries of glory of Athenian history with today, with the monument framed not only as the shining relic of an old civilization, but also in its current location, above a large, modern city.
An inspector is torn between her conviction of there being a need to reconstruct a factory, and a love interest who asks of her not to do that in order for him to further his career.
Behind the scenes in the fishing industry, as the Fylde town supports its trawlermen.
A short film satirizing consumerism.
The three eternal friends: Ficko the Vizsla, Pletyka the Dachshund, and Nimrod the northern goshawk add to the fun. Their exciting adventures in the woods were made into a "human" feature film story by the father of Hungarian nature filmmaking István Homoki-Nagy, after Kipling, with the help of many other trained animals.
A short film by Vesely about the 'Folkwang School for Music, Dance, and Speech' located in Essen.
A look into the world of stock exchanges and how a deal is accomplished between a broker and a jobber.
Through the story of the dog Murgosh, which belongs to the famous Sharplaninec breed, all noble qualities of this world-famous breed are shown: the strength, courage and loyalty.
