Bridgeman Arts
Truck showing an example of a home shelter. US Army parade through streets as families look on. Clip from 1960s Cold War educational film.
Peace Education program of the American friends Service Committee, "The Language of Faces", c.1960. Cold War film. Truck containing an example home shelter with people viewing it. Features household objects such as a sink, radio and...
Bridgeman Arts
Boats and coastal scenes, including Saint-Tropez. Southern France, 1955
Clip 1 from a 1955 French film 'Petits Paradis de Mediterranee' exploring the Mediterranean harbour and the South of France. Scenes of boats and coastal life. Fishermen work at the harbour and tourists crowd around the beaches. Footage...
Bridgeman Arts
The Living City, part 21 - the 1966 Lord Mayor's Show on Lord Mayor's Day
Clip from 1970 film focussing on the history of the City of London - the Square Mile - its economic growth, institutions, administration, buildings and future. The film illustrates the major part taken by local government in the physical...
Bridgeman Arts
New housing in a mining town. France, 1950
Clip 15 from 'Les gens du Nord' (People of the North), a black and white documentary about mining towns in the North of France. Footage of new housing in a mining town.
Bridgeman Arts
Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 10 - council estate shops, community judo class, disabled women at home having tea
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council. Surveys opinions of tenants rehoused on GLC estates as to their new houses...
Bridgeman Arts
French visitors cut hair, teach children and give medical care to a Bedouin camp, Algeria 1957
Clip 3 from 16mm 1957 film about the Tuareg Bedouin tribe in Algeria. Daily life at a Bedouin encampment. French visitors cut hair and teach children to read and write. Claude Blanguernon, Director of Schools of the Hoggar / Ahaggar...
Bridgeman Arts
Barbican 1969, clip 7 - details of the Brutalist architecture of the Barbican.
Clip 7 from a film commissioned by the City of London Corporation to promote the Barbican development scheme. Shots of the built up London cityscape, architectural plans for the barbican Complex, details of the Brutalist architecture of...
Bridgeman Arts
Cycling for London, 1983, part 1 - montage of cyclists and street interviews with general public explaining the benefits of cycling.
Clip 1 from info-film about cycling in London 1983. A Parallax Pictures Production for the GLC. This film explores the history of cycling in London and the GLC's plans to improve the experience of London's cyclists. Commissioned by the...
Bridgeman Arts
The Living City, 1970, part 11 - Tower of London, office tower block, interior open-plan office, office workers
Clip from 1970 film focussing on the history of the City of London - the Square Mile - its economic growth, institutions, administration, buildings and future. The film illustrates the major part taken by local government in the physical...
Bridgeman Arts
Berlin post WWII - communism, Walter Ulbricht, refugee camps, Berlin at demarcation line, 1945
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Cold War. Eastern Germany, Berlin. Brandenburg gate. Military parade in Eastern Germany, Walter Ulbricht (w/out sound) making speech, meeting the parade. Berlin 1945, Soviet army, fall of Berlin. Burning...
Bridgeman Arts
Polynesian people dancing in the forest. France, 1955
Clip 7 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Scenes of Polynesian women dancing and running through a forest while a man plays a guitar-type instrument. A man cuts some...
Bridgeman Arts
Battle in the snow. USA, 1960s
Clip 6 from the 1960s black and white documentary. 'Towards Freedom' (French: Vers la liberte). Scenes of battle amongst the new settlers in America and groups rowing through frozen sea water.
Bridgeman Arts
Daily life at a Bedouin encampment, Algeria 1957. Women milking goats and preparing food. Tribesmen with camels.
Clip 2 from 16mm 1957 film about the Tuareg Bedouin tribe in Algeria. Daily life at a Bedouin encampment. Women milking goats and preparing food. Tribesmen with camels.
Bridgeman Arts
Hunters and exotic animals. France, 1955
Clip 10 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Two black men wander through the jungle with spears. A monkey climbing a tree. A ranger hunts alligators. Exotic birds walk...
Bridgeman Arts
Notre Dame exteriors and Ile Saint-Louis streets. France, 1957
Clip 2 from the French documentary 'Autour de Notre Dame', (Around Notre Dame) from 1957. Exterior shots of the Notre Dame cathedral. Street scenes of the Ile Saint-Louis and shots of its buildings and hotels.
Bridgeman Arts
Miners working inside the coal mine. France, 1952
Clip 7 from the 1952 short film 'Les hommes de la nuit', about the work of miners in coal mines in Lorraine, France. Miners work in the pits of the mine, explode coal reserves and work alongside the rail pulleys that transport the coal...
Bridgeman Arts
Tuareg tribe at camp, playing and listening to music. Man holds woman's hand (courting?). Algeria 1957
Clip 9 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. The Tuaregs, Bedouin tribes. Woman plays a string instrument with others sitting around listening. Person greeted as they walk up to tent in encampment in the Tamanghasset...
Bridgeman Arts
Lenin anniversary book meeting and canal workers in the Fergana Valley. Uzbekistan, 1970
Clip 4 from the 1970 documentary 'Maitre de L'Eau' (Masters of Water) about water and irrigation in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley and Karakum Canal. Men gather for a meeting for a book dedicated to Lenin's 100 year anniversary. Canal...
Bridgeman Arts
Capital County, 1950, part 11 - Council elections, vote counting, housing committees, and future planning
Clip 11 of a film called Capital County, exploring the work of the London County Council (LCC) and the development and administration of London in 1950. The film presents council services seen through the eyes of an ordinary citizen of...
Bridgeman Arts
Living at Thamesmead, 1973, part 12 - Entertainment at the estate fair
Clip 12 from the 1973 film Living at Thamesmead, a semi-fictional account of a couple who live in the Thamesmead estate, created by the Greater London Council to promote the estate. In this clip, a fair takes place at the estate,...
Bridgeman Arts
Squirrels and reindeer feeding in the snow, USSR 1970s
Squirrels and reindeer feeding in the snow, USSR 1970s
Bridgeman Arts
Mohatta Palace, Karachi - Part 1a
Sunset over Mohatta Palace, an exquisite example of Mughal architecture, today an art gallery in Karachi. Colour corrected.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Harry Truman speaks in Washington, DC, about the duties of US labor
US Pres. Harry Truman reads radio address regarding price stability and higher wage rates; if these cannot be achieved, the outlook 'would be very black indeed'; 'there is room in the existing price structure for business as a whole to...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : New museum opens in Dubai on UAE history
Dubai has opened a new museum about the history of the United Arab Emirates combining audio and visual archives as part of a plan to increase the UAE's cultural footprint