Excelsior

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

September 1927 •German

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Geschichte einer Sandrose

January 1961 •German

A boy from the desert tries to sell a sand rose in the big city.

Slaughterhouse

July 2001 •English

Documentary about a slaughterhouse in Quito, where hundreds of people and entire families work everyday. The smell of the place is warm and penetrating, the noise is intense, everything is red. Would that much effort and death have an ulterior purpose?

Ténérife

September 1932 •French

Growing Girls

November 1949 •English

After several farmyard analogies featuring chicks and calves, the well-spoken narrator and director of the film, Winifred Holmes, considers the subject of girls and how they reach adulthood and readiness for the 'important job of motherhood.

Everest 84

January 1986 •Slovak

America's Soul

December 1931 •Spanish

The story of the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Kristallwachstum

January 1952 •German

Experiments on the crystallization of various inorganic substances: crystallization from solution, crystallization from melt and vapour phase, mixed crystal formation, oriented growth, change from a metastable into a stable phase.

Bewegungsweisen bei Protozoen

January 1952 •German

Short film about the movement patterns of protozoa

Opa sein Berlin

January 1981 •German

Rare documentary footage from around 1900 depicts the mood of life in Berlin at the turn of the century.

New York Portrait, Chapter III

March 1990 •English

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of rural landscape. The very fact that Hutton is dealing with older footage, with archives of memory more than immediacy, gives it a different texture than his earlier New York films. Hutton always found the presence of nature in the city, not only in his many shots of sky and vegetation, but also in the geometry and texture of the city itself, which seemed to project an independence from the human." (Tom Gunning)

Zweimal in Deutschland

January 1965 •German

In the spring of 1965, Polish citizen Sheybal visits the town of Genthin. He knows his way around the sugar factory. He had to work there as a prisoner of war during the Second World War. He suffered a life-threatening accident. Now he is looking for the people or their relatives who helped him.

Ich habe meine Pflicht getan

January 1939 •German

Documentary film from a National Socialist perspective on the political development of Germany from the First World War to the annexation of Austria by the German Wehrmacht. The film is presumably one of a series of films intended to convince voters of the achievements of the NSDAP and Adolf Hitler in particular in the run-up to the referendum and Reichstag elections on April 10, 1938

Hakenkreuz am Stahlhelm

January 1933 •German

The film shows the various stages of the Stahlhelm's integration into the NSDAP and the Third Reich.

Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei

January 1929 •German

A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.

13. Parteitag der Liberal-Demokratischen Partei Deutschlands, Weimar 1982

January 1982 •German

Report from the party congress of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD) from April 5 to 7, 1982 in Weimar.

Schutzwall

January 1965 •German

The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The necessity of erecting the border is illustrated by comparing the situation in 1939 and the situation in the summer of 1961 with regard to the "threat of intervention" by the Western powers. Berlin people and GDR border guards are interviewed.

12 Minuten UFA

January 1943 •German

An insight into the work at the UFA-Studios.

Screen Test: Jackie

January 1967 •English

Andy Warhol directs The Factory regular Louisa "Jackie" Foster for a screen test.

Die Seehunde

September 1934 •German

Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards.