Eli Lotar

1860年、夏のフランス。パリで金物商を営むデュフール（アンドレ・ガブリエロ）は、妻ジュリエット（ジャヌ・マルカン）、義母（ガブリエル・フォンタン）、まな娘アンリエット（シルヴィア・バタイユ）、そして彼女の婚約者で婿養子となる予定のアナトール（ポール・タン）とピクニックに出掛ける。馬車を走らせて田舎にやって来た彼らは、太陽の光や草木の匂いを楽しみながら穏やかな一日を過ごそうとする。そんな中アンリエットは、舟こぎの青年アンリ（ジョルジュ・サン＝サーンス）から舟で川に出ないかと誘われる。

An empathetic description of the misery in an inner Parisian suburb, by a photographer who was also the camerman for Joris Ivens, Pierre Prévert and Luis Buñuel. - Nicole Brenez

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)

Prix et Profits is a 20-minute short film originally made for educational purposes and released in 9.5mm format. As the title suggests, the film follows the supply chain of a potato, from farmers to consumers, and examines the mechanisms of capitalism.

A commissioned documentary short showing the effort over several years to close off a shallow bay in the northwest Netherlands from the rest of the North Sea by engineering a dyke,with an area later turned into land after drainage.