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Old man leads child to his house and they prepare dinner. France, 1960
Clip 3 from the 1960 French film 'Au Coeur de la Ville', about an old man who rescues a young girl from suicide. An old man and a child walk back to his house by the railway, and begin to prepare for dinner. The young girl makes friends...
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Cabaret Montmartrois, Paris, part 1 - Paris scenes, cabaret performer in carriage, and introduction to the Hydropathes
Clip 1 from the 1940s French film 'Cabarets Montmartrois (Une Evocation Parisienne) with re-enactments of street scenes and cabarets in Paris in 1889, Montmartre. In this clip, a cover of notebook. Pictures of the Eiffel Tower during...
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Chinese temple. France, 1955
Clip 6 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Scenes of a Chinese temple, women praying inside, and a monk in meditation.
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Bullfighting and spectators. France, 1955
Clip 13 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Scenes of bullfighters, bulls, and spectators. A photographer takes photos and gets down from the roof of a building using a...
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Morning scenes in London c.1960 - milkman, bus station, commuters.
Clip from a promotional film about a French girl visiting London. Late 50s/early 60s. Milkman delivers milk bottles to a town house - he has a horse drawn cart. Drivers set off in famous London buses from a bus station. Man waves goodbye...
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Young lady sleeps on a plane, wakes up and looks out window, c.1960
Clip from a promotional film about a French girl visiting London. Late 50s/early 60s. Air to air shot of small plane in flight. Passengers sleeping in plane. Clouds from the plane.
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Fairground attraction in France 1947: A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing and the other dances.
Clip 5 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. A man dressed as a colonialist presents a cage containing two Kanak people. One of them performs fire-breathing / fire-eating and the other...
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The Bateaux Mouches travels down the Seine with accordion band on board. Paris, 1970s.
Clip from a 1970s tourism film promoting Paris. River boat travels down the Seine with accordion band on board. Paris, 1970s.
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Monuments and statues in Crimea, coastal towns, and the village of Schastie in Ukraine, 1970s
Clip 8 from the film 'Mon Ukraine' (My Ukraine) from the 1970s, exploring landscapes, sites and everyday life in Ukraine. Close up of monument of running horses. Various statues of (probably) communist heroes and workers. Pan of coastal...
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Exploding mine. France, 1952
Clip 6 from the 1952 short film 'Les hommes de la nuit', about the work of miners in coal mines in Lorraine, France. A mine is exploded and collapses. A miner hangs off a tree log and investigates the water,
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Coasts and landscapes of Estonia, 1971
Clip 1 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Opening titles in front of a static shot of a stone building. Shots of the sea, coastline, rocks and cliffs.
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International Agriculture Show, Paris 1970s - cows, horses, sheep and pigs all in competition.
Clip from a 1970s tourism film promoting Paris.
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Greenland expedition, 1934, by French explorers - CU explorers looking at camera, huskies pull boat over land
Scientists and dogs in (canoe) small boat. Men in canoes. CU explorers looking at camera, dogs dragging small boat on ground. Man in sleigh going away.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Canada: Four main candidates arrive for federal election debate
Canada's four federal party leaders arrive in Montreal ahead of the first French language leaders debate which brings together the main contenders including incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Belgium gets new PM after 493 days
After 16 months of indecision, Belgium's French-speaking and Dutch-speaking leaders have reached an agreement to form a government (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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They Made News, part 2 - Georges Mejat talks in French about filming in WW2
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
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They Made News, part 2 - Interview with French WW2 cameraman Georges Mejat
From a programme of unique interviews with top newsreel cameramen who were at the greatest events of the 20th century.
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Afghanistan 1945 - nomadic people with camels and donkeys, playing the rubab (traditional Afghan instrument), girl sings.
Desert, plain, nomads, herds, shepherd, a man playing the national instrument of Afghanistan, the rubab, very old windmills. Camels, children by the river, young bird trainer, young girl with turban singing while a young man watches, two...
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Beach, fishermen and wildlife in Martinique, Antilles, 1950s
Clip 5 from 'Paradis Antillais', a 1950s documentary about Martinique, the Antilles and the West Indies. In this clip, fishermen sort through their catch on the beach. Women wash clothes by the stream. A mongoose and a serpent fight to...
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Inflorescences part 2 - various time-lapse CU shots of different flowers from 1970s
With French narration, filmed in Czech Republic, 1970s. Various time-lapse CU shots of different flowers including catkin, pussy willow, and sunflower
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Spread of communism throughout Europe and Asia, refugees fleeing, Khrushchev, North Korea, people crossing the Soviet border in Germany
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Refuges, walking barefoot on sand, "fleeing communist countries". Meeting relatives in refugees camp, kissing, embracing. Possibly staged. Communists in Asia, North Korea, mass grave, dead bodies....
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Ceremony in the Olympic Stadium, Stockholm architecture and roads. Sweden, 1960s
Clip 4 from the 1960s documentary 'Vikings D'hier et D'Aujourd'hui' (Vikings Yesterday and Today) from Sweden. Scenes from a ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm. Various shots of the city architecture and roads.
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Building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Relatives wave at each other across the wall and barbed wire.
Anti-Communist propaganda film. August 1961, building of Berlin Wall. People waving to relatives from each side of the wall. Various columns of refugees, in post-war Europe and Asia.
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Girls in a Geography lesson, learning how to take care of babies, and doing housework. France 1942
Clip 4 from the 1942 French film 'Francaises De Demain' about the women's school Ecole Nationale Professionnelle de Jeunes Filles, established in 1934 in Vizille, Vercors / French Alps. POV from the courtyard into the classroom. Girls...