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Festival of Flowers in Monaco. French Riviera, 1951
Clip 5 from the 1951 French language film 'Croisiere Bleue' about the South of France, the French Riviera, Monaco and Monte Carlo. Scene of the harbour. Tilt down to a shot of meadow covered with white flowers. Scenes from the festival...
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Fashion and traditional dress in Guadeloupe, Antilles, 1950s
Clip 12 from 'Paradis Antillais', a 1950s documentary about Martinique, the Antilles and the West Indies. In this clip, women pose and rotate for the camera, wearing traditional dress and costumes. A woman lays by the beach in the...
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Dancing, camels and boats. Algeria, 1947
Clip 8 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. Men and women dance in traditional costume by a fire. Caravans of camels move through the desert. A map of Algeria highlights its...
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Ein Karem, home of John the Baptist, nuns looking after children, children playing, GV of Nazareth. 1940s
Clip 2 from 'Le Chemin des Croisades', a French language film about Israel in the 1940s/1950s. Ein Karem, home of John the Baptist, nuns looking after children, children playing, GV of Nazareth;
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Storks nesting in cupolas and railway wires, USSR 1970s
Storks nesting in cupolas and railway wires, USSR 1970s
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Greenland expedition, 1934, by French explorers - indigenous people hunt with harpoons in kayaks. Children learn to ride kayaks.
Eskimo kayaks. Hunter throwing harpoon w/ propelling stick. Explorers and Eskimos in kayaks. Children learning to row in false kayaks made of stones. Woman and children sitting in middle of flowers, child playing to fish. Explorer...
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Greek church. Nuns caring for young children. Views of the River Jordan. Israel 1940s
Clip 6 from 'Le Chemin des Croisades', a French language film about Israel in the 1940s/1950s. Greek church, fountain where the Christ is said to take water for his mother, holy water. Nuns caring for young children. Views of the River...
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Greenland expedition, 1934, by French explorers - leaving by kayak, dog sledding and camping
Explorers travel by husky-drawn sled across snowy landscape and by kayak. Eskimos wave goodbye.
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Greenland expedition, 1934, by French explorers - eskimo cuts up seal meat, makes weapons, dresses for hunting in canoe
eskimo cuts up seal meat, makes weapons, dresses for hunting in canoe.
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Wide shot of village in North African desert, family leaves on foot due to drought, c.1960
Pan of a small village in the desert. Low buildings in North Africa / Morroco made from stone. Moroccan family with a mule / donkey crossing the village deserted because of drought. Clip from 'Going Places' series with Lowell Thomas.
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Cruisers arrive in Port Said, sailors on leave, and navigating the canals. Egypt, 1945
Clip 3 from the 1945 film 'Escales Imperiales' (Imperial Ports of Call), which highlights the maritime routes linking the French empire into one vast network. Arrival in Port Said (Egypt). Feluccas, a statue of Ferdinand De Lesseps and...
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Navy soldiers on board a ship. Diploma ceremonies. USSR, 1973
Clip 7 from the 1973 propaganda film The Soviet Army. Soviet navy soldiers on board a ship engaging in training and problem solving. Water gushes through the ship wall as students try to block it. Soldiers under water and operating naval...
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Visual tricks with cameras, made in France, 1956
Clip 6 from the 1956 French documentary 'Images d'hier et D'aujourd'hui' (Images of Yesterday and Today) about the history of photography, featuring reenactments from the early 1900s. In this clip, camera tricks show people walking...
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Preparations for a wedding in Morocco, c.1960 - makeup, clothing, women singing and dancing, procession carrying bride in veil
Ruins of Volubilis. Moroccan women in the ruins. Close up of a woman doing her hair. Close up of foot: woman is putting on decorated shoes. Close up of Moroccan woman putting on makeup. Close up of floor's mosaic. Wide shot and medium...
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Camel train in the Moroccan desert, farming and water, c.1960
High angle shot of desert in North Africa. Wide shot of caravan in the desert. Caravane crossing the screen, wide shot and medium shot. Men draw out the water from a well. Water conteiner made from animal skin and metal. High angle shot...
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Women at work around the world, 1940s-1950s
A cotton threading factory in 1940s - 1950s. A woman piles up 15 large spools on her shoulder. A woman lab technician activating a machine / device. African women seated at workbench assembling and packing very small paper boxes. A young...
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Nurses and scientists in training. Art school, market, gardens and a woman belly-dancing. Algiers, 1961
Clip 2 from the 1961 film 'De quel amour blessec', which shows images from Algeria through the centuries from the perspective of four writers: Apulece, Saint Augustin, Ibn Khaldoun et Albert Camus. Nurses, all dressed in white listening...
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Famadihana funerary tradition in Madagascar, 1930s.
Part 8 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. Interesting clip documenting the Famadihana funerary tradition in Madagascar, 1930s. Known as 'the turning of the bones', Malagasy people bring...
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Bahrain 1960s - pearl hunters dive for oysters in the Persian Gulf.
Clip 3 from French language film about Bahrain in the 1960s. Pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf. Men dive from boat for oysters and pick out the pearls on deck.
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Man plays a vinyl record. Re-enacted scenes on the invention of the phonograph. 1958.
Clip 1 from Au Creux des Sillons. French language film about the history of sound recording made in 1958 with the help of Pathe-Marconi. Shows the process of manufacturing vinyl discs from studio recording to factory. Young woman walks...
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Madagascar c.1958 - Traditional music and dancing.
Clip 17 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. Traditional music and dancing. Air France plane leaves.
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Establishing shots of Paris and its colleges and universities, 1951
Clip 1 from the 1951 French film 'Le Lycee Sur La Colline', following a student of the 1950s from his entry at Lycee Henri IV (Paris) to his final graduation. Ancient map of Paris. Aerial shot of central Paris (Ile Saint-Louis). Eiffel...
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Basque beret and chistera production. Basque Country, c.1930s
Clip 7 from the documentary Zazpiak Bat about the Basque Country. Scenes from a production line of Basque berets, espadrille shoes and chistera racquets. Shots from inside a Basque home. An animated map of the Basque Country and end...
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Madagascar c.1958 - The harvesting and production of vanilla.
Clip 16 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. The harvesting and production of vanilla.