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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...
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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.
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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...
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The Promise of Spring 1950s - Planning how the garden will look
16mm American film from 1950s about spring.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Sahara, Algeria, 1954 - Schools, coal mines, power stations and railways in Colom Bechar
Clip 4 from the 1954 film 'Les Deux Visages Du Sahara', a short propaganda film exploring the French government's contribution to Algeria during colonization. In this clip, school children outside a school. Scenes of workers at a coal...
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Paris scenes and Notre Dame exteriors. France, 1957
Clip 1 from the French documentary 'Autour de Notre Dame', (Around Notre Dame) from 1957. Scenes of the River Seine and Paris. Statue of King Henry on horseback. Views of the city from the roof of the Louvre. Exterior shots of the Notre...
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Sahara, Algeria, 1954 - Colom Bechar, camels, and vehicles driving through roads and water
Clip 2 from the 1954 film 'Les Deux Visages Du Sahara', a short propaganda film exploring the French government's contribution to Algeria during colonization. In this clip, scenes of Colom Bechar and its people. Men on camels, and...
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The Promise of Spring 1950s - montage of various flowers
16mm American film from 1950s about spring.
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Moroccan men and women play drums, clap and sing, women dance in traditional clothing, c.1960
The Berbers sit in a circle under an open tent, clapping their hands. Close up of a leather drum. Woman in the center covers her face with a veil. Woman starts to dance. She uncovers her face. Moroccan women in jewellery dancing. Medium...
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Maternal deprivation with young children, c.1950 part 2 - children withrawn from outside world, behavioural problems
Science / Psychotherapy. A clinical and outdated look on psycho-therapeutic treatments in children suffering from maternal deprivation following separation at early age. Institutionalised children suffering from isolation, mournful...
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Le Pont Neuf in Paris. France, 1957
Clip 6 from the French documentary 'Autour de Notre Dame', (Around Notre Dame) from 1957. Exterior shots of buildings in the city centre of Paris. Old illustrations of Le Pont Neuf, and footage of the bridge from various angles.
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Capital County, 1950, part 10 - council restaurant, leisure activities in parks and gardens, and the Odeon cinema
Clip 10 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...
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Madagascar c.1958 - group of women perform a traditional dance (similar to maypole) while singing.
Clip 5 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. Hospital grounds on teh island Nosy Be. A group of women perform a maypole dance and sing.
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Capital County, 1950, part 9 - A care home for the elderly on the outskirts of London
Clip 9 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...
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Capital County, 1950, part 8 - Children's home, welfare centre, and inspection of market stall scales
Clip 8 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...
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Moroccan men and women making music in a mosque, c.1960
Clip from 'Going Places' series with Lowell Thomas. Men playing the tambourines and clappin their hands inside the mosque. Women clapping their hands.
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Open-air ballet in Monte Carlo. French Riviera, 1951
Clip 2 from the 1951 French language film 'Croisiere Bleue' about the South of France, the French Riviera, Monaco and Monte Carlo. Four ballet dancers perform on an outdoor stage. Close-ups of the dancers as they dance.