Bridgeman Arts
Journey For Survival part two - Water delivered to village. Dirty water holes in Ethiopia and the Yemeni desert. Women talking to cameras.
Clip from 'Journey For Survival' 1981 documentary about drought and famine in developing countries. Water tank truck entering a village. A man filling a tub for a woman. South american woman explaining how hard it is to get water....
Bridgeman Arts
Living at Thamesmead, 1973, part 14 - Couple walk around the estate and visit the information centre
Clip 14 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 young teenage couple walk around the...
Bridgeman Arts
Capital County, 1950, part 6 - surveyor inspecting construction site, midwife visiting a home, and sewage systems
Clip 6 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
Supersonic Preview part 3 - Concorde Sales Director speaks. Shots of Concorde factory, engine and cockpit.
Clip from a documentary on the Concorde plane, showing us how wonderfully useful, fast and liable it is. This film predicts the beginning of a supersonic age. Probably 1976, when the Concorde entered service as a commercial airliner....
Bridgeman Arts
Part 5 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - architects and planners at County Hall, designing modern buildings for the rebuilding of postwar London
Clip 5 from film focusing on the clearance of bomb damaged buildings following World War II and the projects and plans to rebuild the capital. The role of the London County Council, the architects department, its development plan and...
Bridgeman Arts
Girls learn to use typewriters, draw, paint, stitch and sew. Students perform ballet and dance. France, 1942
Clip 6 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. Girls learn to use typewriters and have art lessons...
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Factories and aqueducts. Paris, 1950s
Clip 4 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). Scenes of factories and water mills. Aqueducts in La Vanne, on the outskirts of Paris. Sterilization plants.
Bridgeman Arts
Cycling for London, 1983, part 6 - cyclist cycles through Paddington, Hyde Park and Chelsea Bridge
Clip 6 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
Fairground in full swing - acrobatics, dogs doing tricks, belly dancer; clowns, etc. France 1947
Clip 4 from a French-language film about fairground entertainers from 1947. French narration. Tracking shot through the fairground. Performers include woman with snake, two girls dancing, two clowns performing for the camera, a girl...
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Holiday group walk and cycle through countryside. France 1930s
Clip 6 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. The holiday group wades through river water and walks through the...
Bridgeman Arts
Czechoslovakia 1968 - Czech civilians protest the Soviet occupation and distribute newspapers
Clip 7 from the 1968 film "Seven Days to Remember", a chronology of the events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968 by troops from the Warsaw Pact. In this clip, Czech civilians protest the Soviet occupation...
Bridgeman Arts
Old Fort District, Lahore 1
Various images in the area surrounding the Old Fort in Lahore, a Mughal stronghold. Colour corrected.
Bridgeman Arts
The Living City, 1970, part 13 - London cityscape during redevelopment, Barbican centre, city 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
Hopi Native Americans perform the Butterfly Dance, Arizona, 1950s(?)
Part 3 of a documentary (1950s?) about the Hopi Native American tribe in Arizona.
Bridgeman Arts
Water testing. Paris, 1950s
Clip 6 from the 1950s French film 'A La Claire Fontaine' (By The Clear Fountain). A man in a laboratory tests and tastes water from various running taps. Shots of the countryside and high angle views of Paris from the roof of a building....
Bridgeman Arts
Chinon Nuclear Power Plant in Indre-et-Loire, France, 1959, part 3
Clip 4 from the nuclear power documentary 'La voie Francaise des centrales nucleaires, de marcoule a chinon' made between 1954 and 1956, and presented by Le Commissariat - l'Energie Atomique et Electricite de France. Construction of A1,...
Bridgeman Arts
Oslo city scenes and a viking puppet. Oslo, 1960s
Clip 2 from 'Oslo, The Viking Capital' (Oslo, Ville des Vikings) from the 1960s, an animated film about vikings in Oslo. City scenes of Oslo and a window display of a viking puppet. A man takes the puppet to an outdoor cafe and watches...
Bridgeman Arts
Damaged buildings, US government agency offices. 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. damaged and desolate buildings. Secret Services offices or other US government agency offices, men and women typing.
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 4 - kids from council estates playing in streets, shots of council housing
Clip from a documentary type account of the slums of London and the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council since 1965 in slum clearance and building and its...
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Crozant's fortress ruins, picnic, and Eguzon Dam. France 1930s
Clip 5 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. The holiday group visit the Crozant's fortress ruins overlooking the...
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US citizens in streets, anti-war protest, people debating. 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. General street scenes (New York?). Male and female anti-war demonstrators debate with each other in the streets during...
Bridgeman Arts
Holiday group cycling through the countryside and visiting Aubusson. France, 1930s
Clip 2 from the 1930s French documentary 'A la decouverte de la France: La Creuse ignoree' (Discover France: The unknown Creuse), about the Creuse region in France. Holiday group cycling along the Creuse and down country roads, playing...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Congress of Industrial Organizations President Philip Murray addresses labor and management gathering in Washington
SOT CIO President Philip Murray as he addresses labor and management gathering: 'our true problem then cannot be defined as wholly a procedural one. Our true problem in the United States of America today is that little word 'no'. And we...
Bridgeman Arts
Sweden 1970s - Workers' rights, allowances and trade unions
Promotional film with American VO about Sweden, made in 1970s. Clip features scenes of workers in factories and offices as the voice-over explains the typical Swedish working week, holiday allowance and trade unions.