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Historical re-enactment scenes of music production studio in the 1920s. Jazz band plays while producers record it onto vinyl. Filmed in 1958.
Clip 3 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. Historical...
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Markets, dancing and minarets. Algeria, 1947
Clip 6 from 'Deglet-Nour, Doigt de Lumiere', a 1947 documentary about Algeria during French colonization. Scenes of a large marketplace and vendors with their goods. Women and girls dance to music. A minaret in town.
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Tourists in Paris. Bridges and boats. France, 1957
Clip 8 from the French documentary 'Autour de Notre Dame', (Around Notre Dame) from 1957. Various shots of tourists and visitors in the centre of Paris. Bateaux Mouche boats travel down the Seine.
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Cabaret Montmartrois, Paris, part 2 - Interiors of Lapin Agile house, book covers, Sacre-Coeur and end montage
Clip 2 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, Paris streets near Saint-Sulpice. Saint Sulpice church....
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Ansel Adams taking photos on location, working with students and developing pictures in dark room, 1965
Ansel Adams taking photos on location, working with students and developing pictures in dark room, 1965
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Aqueducts. Paris, 1950s
Clip 3 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). Scenes of aqueducts in the French countryside.
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North African desert wildlife, c.1960
Wildlife in North African desert. New born birds in the nest. Fennec fox, snake, lizard. Tracks of a snake on the sand. Snake fighting with a big lizard. Close up of some plants. Monitor lizard fighting and eaten by a skunk. Clip from...
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Camel caravan with Tuareg people and European tourists in the Sahara Desert, 1957
Clip 3 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. The Tuaregs, Bedouin tribes. Caravan is stopped with both animals and men resting. The group mounts and rides off. Touring Club de France. Shot of "assistance automobile...
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Waterfalls and rocks. France, 1955
Clip 9 from the 1955 film 'La Piste Du Soleil', exploring the possibilities of exotic photography in France. Scenes of cliffs, rocks, mountains, streams and waterfalls.
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Edward Hopper painting in his studio, his wife Josephine Hopper also paints, shots of New York City. 1965
Edward Hopper painting in his studio, his wife Josephine Hopper also paints, shots of New York City. 1965
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Inflorescences part 1 - 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: tulip; cyclamen; red clover; strawberry flower; sweet pea; lily of the valley; lupin; red; shepherd's purse; weed; weeds; bleeding...
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Greenland expedition, 1934, by French explorers - eskimos cut up seal meat and make ropes from tendons and straps from skin.
What the Eskimos do with the seal; all is used. Eskimos cut seal skin up, scrape grease off skin. Skins are put in fermented urine to tan it. Skins are scratched with teeth. Eskimo cuts seal tendon to make ropes. Dried tendons are...
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Greenland expedition, 1934, by French explorers - explorers travel by husky-drawn sled. Eskimo people carve up and eat raw seal meat. CUs of smiling faces.
Explorers travel by husky-drawn sled across snowy landscape. Eskimo people carve up and eat raw seal meat. CUs of smiling eskimo faces.