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Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
During a break from the production of "Ferry to Hong Kong" (1959), Orson Welles spent three weeks touring Colonial Hong Kong and Macau documenting the ongoing refugee crisis, ...
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6.4
How Some Jellyfish Are Born
How Some Jellyfish Are Born
At a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by buds, which we watch close up in ...
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Look at Life: Top People
Look at Life: Top People
An overview of high-rise construction activity in London. From the crane operators who build the new sky-scrapers to the tenants who live in the penthouses, this newsreel provides a ...
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6
Stendali (Still They Toll)
Stendali (Still They Toll)
A unique documentary on the traditional dirge in Griko, an ancient language of Salento.
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6.6
Harvest of Shame
Harvest of Shame
In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Topics range from the harsh living conditions, ...
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8
Dream of the Wild Horses
Dream of the Wild Horses
The horses in Denys Colomb Daunant’s dream poem are the white beasts of the marshlands of the Camargue in South West France. Daunant was haunted by these creatures. His obsession was ...
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5.6
Magritte or the Object Lesson
Magritte or the Object Lesson
The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its image and its name: the evocation of ...
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6.3
Yanki No!
Yanki No!
After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.
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5.5
Shelagh Delaney’s Salford
Shelagh Delaney’s Salford
Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.
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7.2
The Horse with the Flying Tail
The Horse with the Flying Tail
A palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.
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7.7
Blue Pullman
Blue Pullman
Blue Pullman is a 1960 short documentary film directed by James Ritchie, which follows the development, preparation and a journey from Manchester to London on new British Railways Blue ...
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Look at Life: Horse-power Riders
Look at Life: Horse-power Riders
Experts prove that safety on a motorcycle stems from control of the machines. The Royal Corp Signals demonstrate this.
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7.3
Description of a Struggle
Description of a Struggle
Working primarily in the arena of nonfiction, Marker rejected conventional narrative techniques, instead staking out a deeply political terrain defined by the use of still images, ...
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5.5
Re-enactment
Re-enactment
In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the secret police organize a hold up of the National Bank. After their arrest, the state forces them to play themselves ...
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The Danube
The Danube
The people who live along the Danube are studied along with their traditions, in which they take great pride. Both old and new customs and festivals are shown. The film ends with a ...
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Cradle of Genius
Cradle of Genius
Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1904. Oscar Nominee: Best ...
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6
A House in Bayswater
A House in Bayswater
A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The building is demolished to make way for an ...
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6.7
Dispossession
Dispossession
An experimental film in which time breaks again and again at the moment of death, where the seconds become whole lives condemned.
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5.5
Le Sourire
Le Sourire
In the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni, and Kagi by Kon Ichikawa -- 'Le Sourire' won the ...
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Seconds for Survival
Seconds for Survival
Cold War film illustrating the defense capacity of America's telephone network, highlighting AT&T's role in the design and construction of the nation's integrated defense structure, ...
