Bridgeman Arts
Qatar gas plants. Suburban developments. Telecommunications training. UAE, 1974
Clip 8 from 'Arabia, the fortunate' a documentary about the United Arab Emirates in 1974. Qatar gas industrial and fertilizer plants. Luxury hotels and suburbs. Internal and overseas telecommunications training.
Bridgeman Arts
New construction developments, burial grounds, new technological college, banking. UAE, 1974
Clip 5 from 'Arabia, the fortunate' a documentary about the United Arab Emirates in 1974. Footage of new construction developments, archaeologists working on burial grounds from 300 BC, new Gulf Technological College, women partaking in...
Bridgeman Arts
Sewers and offices. Paris, 1950s
Clip 7 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). Underground sewers of Paris. Workers in treatment plants. An office worker talks to an operator on the telephone, with a view of the Eiffel Tower from his...
Bridgeman Arts
Sweden 1970s - Banking and industrial exports
Promotional film with American VO about Sweden, made in 1970s. Clip features scenes of bankers at work in their offices, and shots of transatlantic ships carrying cargo, and exports such as railways made for African countries.
Bloomberg
How Important to the World Is Obamas Immigration Plan?
Nov. 20 -- Jim McCaughan, chief executive officer at Principal Global Investors, and Mortimer Singer, president and chief executive officer at Marvin Traub Associates, discuss the points the world will be watching for in tonights...
Bloomberg
Diller Discovered QVC, Interactive TV From His Designer Wife
Oct.03 -- Barry Diller, the billionaire chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, tells David Rubenstein that his wife had appeared on the QVC network and when he first saw it he was "intrigued." Diller soon bought QVC on his way to creating a...
Bridgeman Arts
Oil, satellites, Souks, streetlife, and telecommunications engineers. UAE, 1974
Clip 4 from 'Arabia, the fortunate' a documentary about the United Arab Emirates in 1974. Footage of oil reserves, satellites, Souks, street life, bread-making. Engineers working on telephone exchange systems in Bahrain.
Curated Video
Christie's begins its autumn sale
New York - November 13, 2002
1. Setup shots of Christies auction house
2. Various Jasper Jones "0-9" painting being sold for nine (m) million (US) dollars
New York - November 11, 2002
3. Various Jasper Jones painting on display
4....
Curated Video
Rare works on sale at Christie's auction
1. Wide pan shot of packed auction room at Christie's
2. Wide shot of Christopher Burge, Christie's honorary chairman in America, conducting auction
3. Auction with painting by Lucian Freud, "Naked Woman on a Sofa," projected onto large...
Bridgeman Arts
Colleagues laugh at an old man and his manager shouts at him. France, 1960
Clip 8 from the 1960 French film 'Au Coeur de la Ville', about an old man who rescues a young girl from suicide. An old man is laughed at by his colleagues in his workplace. He is called into the manager's office, and is shouted at. He...
Curated Video
ISRAEL: HUMAN RIGHTS BEING MONITORED
FEATURES Jerusalem - 14 September, 2000
1. Skyscrapers in modern West Jerusalem.
2. Old housing in East Jerusalem.
3. Wide of park in West Jerusalem.
4. Family at picnic
5. People playing ball in park.
6. Modern apartment block in West...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: James Gleick on the History of Information
Gleick writes of information sharing through the ages, from African drum languages to the internet.
Other
National Film Board of Canada: Science Please! Part 2
Animated short films explain, with humor, the science of lightning, magnets, sound, the telephone, and related scientific fundamentals. [15:02]