Keeping Clean and Neat(1956)

Tractor Ted Feathered Friends(en)

Where do eggs come from? Do you know? Chickens!!! Tractor Ted is off to the farm to see them with his friends Farmer Tom and Midge the dog. Sing along as Farmer Tom fills up the hopper with food for the chickens and watch with Tractor Ted as the farmer checks the engine on the huge tractor with caterpillar tracks. Tractor Ted has fun spinning around in the field with it too! At the end of the day Tractor Ted and Midge tell the children all about it and see the eggs that they have been busy painting.

Tractor Ted Glorious Grass(en)

Find out how silage is made on the farm. Meet Tractor Ted and Farmer Tom as they see tractors and forage harvesters hard at work in the fields cutting, raking and collecting the grass. The children and Midge the dog tease Les when they hide in the long grass. Poor Les!

Monológy Tomáša N.(sk)

Queen of Condoms(es)

Ceschi and Stamm's documentary tells the incredible story of Monika Krause, a former East German citizen, who became Fidel Castro's Sexual Education Minister. After 20 years in Cuba, Krause set the Cuban sexual revolution in motion: in favor of a woman's right to sexual fulfillment and legal abortion, and against exclusion of homosexuals, she acquired the title "Queen of Condoms". A film about potent female agitators, staunch macho men and Caribbean love lives.

Learning to Live(en)

A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples.

The New Apartment(de)

A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund (SWB), Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition, WOBA, to demonstrate innovative aspects of modern architecture and highlight their differences from the event’s highly conservative approach. Despite its ad campaign roots, Richter's touch is not absent; The surviving version, aimed at a "bourgeois" Swiss public, presents decluttered, functional architecture and decor as superior to the traditional and luxurious "ancient" ways of living.

The Station(it)

A day in the life of a train station.

Aquarium(xx)

Different species of fish and frogs, inside an aquarium.

Washington, le président McKinley adressant son message au peuple(fr)

A crowd of spectators listen to President William McKinley's speech during his inauguration ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Balançoires(fr)

19th century carnival ride.

Bruxelles, Grand’Place(fr)

The main market square in the heart of Brussels.

Panorama pendant l'ascension de la Tour Eiffel(fr)

Panorama during the ascent of the Eiffel Tower.

Chutes du Rhin vues de loin(fr)

A small boat is approaching waterfalls, shrouded in thick fog, in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland.

Ballet, 'Le carnaval de Venise' II(fr)

A group of women dressed up as Commedia dell'Arte characters dance together.

Le goûter champêtre(fr)

A group of young women and children enjoy a rowdy picnic in the countryside.

Bal d'enfants(fr)

A group of ten infant girls are on a playground. They are in pairs, matched in height. They are doing an organised dance. Each pair twirls simultaneously, while all five pairs rotate in a circular sequence. They often stop their circular rotation so that each pair can perform the same manoeuvre as the other four simultaneously.

Descent of the Great Pyramid(fr)

Descent of the Great Pyramid.

Une scène d'hypnotisme II(fr)

A hypnotism scene from the Lumière Brothers.

The Road of Health(en)

The lecturer shows a microcinematographic sequence of spirochaetes and drawings of the gonoccus (the bacteria responsible for syphilis and gonorrhea). He then turns to an easel and begins to draw 'the road of health'; the cartoon takes this up in magic drawing, in a style that is highly reminiscent of the 'Giro the Germ' series made for the Health and Cleanliness Council a few years before.

Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle(en)

A camera on an overhead crane travels down a large, long aisle where men are shown working on large machinery on either side. Carts carrying equipment are shown traveling on rails down the aisles. There are also men walking in the aisles. From Bitzer's Westinghouse Works series.