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The Promise of Spring 1950s - couple admire the flowers in the front garden of their suburban home
16mm American film from 1950s about spring.
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Irrigation and farming. New Mexico c.1950.
Clip 6 from the film 'The American Scene: Indian Life in Mexico' c.1950. Scenes of nature and water streams in New Mexico. Farmers direct the water to irrigate their crops. Melons, corn and grain grows on the farms.
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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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City of Treasures part 4 - antiques in flea market, Paris 1951
High angle / pan of Parisian market with sign "Marche Biron". WS of boy walking through market. CU figurines of Saint Maria with Jesus, chandeliers. MS of stand with old clocks, oil lamps and mirror. CU of old Chinese vases. CU of stone...
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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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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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Picasso's ceramics filmed outdoors, in nature settings, Vallauris, France, 1952
Picasso's pots and other ceramic works are displayed on the beach and in the grass. Shown in domestic settings also. Vallauris, France, 1952
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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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Hopi village and religious ceremony, dancing, children, dolls representing spirits.
Part 1 of a documentary (1950s?) about the Hopi Native American tribe in Arizona.
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Picasso drawing and painting in Vallauris, children making pottery, c.1952
Picasso drawing and painting in Vallauris, children making pottery, c.1952
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Kitsch 1950s industrial movie about nylon, part 1 (remaining film can be ordered)
Du Pont industrial movie about nylon : man-made fiber used in women's stockings, replaces linen, wool, cotton and silk. Hilaire de Chardonnet (1 May 1839 - 11 March 1924), born Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Chardonnet, was a French...
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Part 3 of The Changing Face of London, 1960 - restoring Wren's churches after WWII bomb damage, city workers on lunch-break, construction sites
Clip 3 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...
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Fireball of atomic test (Joe 14) Semipalatinsk Test Site, USSR, 1954
HD colour footage shows the formation of an explosion fireball, from a Soviet test of an air-dropped atomic bomb, on 30th October 1954. The device known by the US as Joe 14, was tested at the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan....
NOAA
Noaa: Estuary Education: Tornado: View From the Past
Weather forecasting has advanced since this film was made (in about 1956). Compare forecasting methods shown in this film with modern techniques. Watch for a huge mistake in the way scientists thought about tornado safety fifty years...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Something From the Oven
What were Americans eating in the 50s? NPR offers a conversation with an author that declares the 50s as a time when the food industry tried to shape American women. Interesting ideas on how the modern American woman emerged from the 50s.