Bridgeman Arts
Tibetan uprising in 1959 - refugees and combat. Tibetans flee to India and Nepal where they set up a new community.
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Tibet. Buddhist temples. Communists seize Tibet, fighting, Tibetan refugees, Tibetans in India and Nepal. Burning houses, fights in Asian countries.
Bridgeman Arts
Sacred tribal dance. Sorcerer dances to the snake. Madagascar 1930s.
Part 1 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas : De Madagascar - Tombouctou / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. Sacred tribal dance. Sorcerer dances to the snake. Madagascar 1930s.
Bridgeman Arts
Berlin divided, 1961 - Guards at the Berlin Wall, East Berliners look towards West Berlin, properties abandoned.
ECU of barbed-wire on the Berlin Wall. A guard in the background at the Brandenburg gate. A family with children talking to the guards on patrol in the space between East and West Berlin. People standing, waiting on a pavement. LS of the...
Bridgeman Arts
Off-duty soldiers. USSR, 1973
Clip 2 from the 1973 propaganda film The Soviet Army: The Railway Army. Off-duty soldiers from the Soviet Army's railway unit shower, polish their shoes, tend to the greenhouse garden plants, engage in photography, and have discussions...
Bridgeman Arts
Tallinn architecture and citizen meeting. Estonia, 1971
Clip 2 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Shots of the coast and sail-ships. High angle and aerial views of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, and its architecture. Men and women sit at a...
Bridgeman Arts
Meetings at the Paris Conservatoire, France, 1943
Clip 1 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. January 1943. Young men walk down Paris...
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Fountains and water in the city. Paris, 1950s
Clip 9 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). Scenes of the countryside in France. Shots of public and decorative fountains by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. End credits.
Bridgeman Arts
School children in Southeast Asia. Indochina, 1945
Clip 8 from the 1945 film 'Escales Imperiales' (Imperial Ports of Call), which highlights the maritime routes linking the French empire into one vast network. Schools in Indochina show the 'benefits' of colonization. Children play in the...
Bridgeman Arts
Carpet and leather manufacturing in Morocco, c.1960 - children and women weave carpets, men tan and dry leather
Little girl making a carpet. Wide shot of carpet shop/factory. Close up of a girl's hands making a carpet. Wide shot of a complete carpet. Various shots of people tanning, dying and drying leather skins. Clip from 'Going Places' series...
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Sailors on leave in Sri Lanka and approaching Vietnam on cruiser. Sri Lanka and Vietnam, 1945
Clip 6 from the 1945 film 'Escales Imperiales' (Imperial Ports of Call), which highlights the maritime routes linking the French empire into one vast network. Sailors going on leave in Colombo (Ceylon / Sri Lanka) streets. Going about...
Bridgeman Arts
Richard Hunt, the sculptor, at work in his studio in Chicago. Neighbourhood boys watch. 1965
Richard hunts searches for car parts in a junk yard. Works with them in his studio with neighbourhood kids watching. Chicago 1965
Bridgeman Arts
Photographer Ansel Adams working on location in California and at home, playing piano and dining with his family. 1965
Photographer Ansel Adams working on location in California and at home, playing piano and dining with his family. 1965
Bridgeman Arts
Five Nations rugby match, France Vs Ireland, Paris 1970s
Clip from a 1970s tourism film promoting Paris. France plays Ireland in a Five Nations rugby game in Paris 1970s.
Bridgeman Arts
School performances, parades and choir singing. Estonia, 1971
Clip 9 from the 1971 documentary 'Estonia' made in the Soviet Union, dubbed in French. Older school children in traditional dress give flowers to elders. Students perform dances on stage. A band plays music and a community parade walks...
Bridgeman Arts
Tuareg celebration in the Hoggar region, 1957 - playing drums, singing, camel racing
Clip 5 from 16mm 1957 film about the Tuareg Bedouin tribe in Algeria. Tuareg celebration in the Ahaggar / Hoggar region. People playing drums. Camel race. Camel riders circle around a group of people sitting (women? Ceremony of sorts?)...
Bridgeman Arts
French man teaches French to Tuareg children at a Bedouin camp in Algeria, 1957
Clip 4 from 16mm 1957 film about the Tuareg Bedouin tribe in Algeria. Tuareg Kids learning French, repeating French words (natural sound), literacy class for adults at the same time. Probably a school of the Hoggar / Ahaggar region. Kids...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : French first lady visits sexual violence
CLEAN : French first lady visits sexual violence
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
French Pres. Vincent Auriol opens sixth session of UN General Assembly at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
VO applause as French Pres. Vincent Auriol and party enter hall at Palais de Chaillot for UN General Assembly meeting / SOT Auriol speaks in French at podium / Note: exact day not known; documentation incomplete
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1940s Tunis during World War II
[French language VO throughout ] Title: 'A Travers l' Empire' (Through the Empire) superimposed on camel with rider and minaret; 'Tunis' over faces of three men / gate in bustling city street / multi-domed Sidi Mahrez Mosque / tower seen...
Bridgeman Arts
The King of Norway arrives at Winter Sports championship. Ski jumper sets off with POV shots. Oslo 1960s
OSLO in the 1960s. King Olav V of Norway at Winter Sports Championship. POV / Ski Ramp / Down slope / Ski Jump.
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Madagascar c.1958 - wounded is helped on to plane. Views of the islands Nosy Be and Nosy Komba
Clip 4 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. Emergency car, ambulance, wounded is helped on to plane. Aerial view of the island, Nosy Be and...
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Madagascar c.1958 - Villagers prepare coconuts. Women sing and dance.
Clip 7 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. Villagers prepare coconuts. Women sing and dance.
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Madagascar c.1958 - A Comorian wedding ceremony with dancing and musicians in Mahajanga
Clip 2 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. A Comorian wedding ceremony with dancing and musicians in Mahajanga, Madagascar.