Helen van Dongen

Последний черно-белый фильм режиссера снят в документальной манере. Есть простой, но четкий и захватывающий сюжет, моменты сильного саспенса, живая атмосфера и превосходная операторская работа. Снято все исключительно на натуре, в болотистых местах Луизианы. Картина рассказывает о мальчике-кэйджуне (кэйджунами называют местных жителей французского происхождения) и его родителях, живущих охотой и рыбалкой в болотах и реках, кишащих аллигаторами. Тут же рабочие нефтяной компании возятся со своим громоздким оборудованием для бурения скважин, и их прибытие производит огромное впечатление на семью. Во всем фильме, возможно, не более ста строк диалога - гораздо больше говорит камера, красноречивые звуковые эффекты и выразительное музыкальное сопровождение.

Последний черно-белый фильм режиссера снят в документальной манере. Есть простой, но четкий и захватывающий сюжет, моменты сильного саспенса, живая атмосфера и превосходная операторская работа. Снято все исключительно на натуре, в болотистых местах Луизианы. Картина рассказывает о мальчике-кэйджуне (кэйджунами называют местных жителей французского происхождения) и его родителях, живущих охотой и рыбалкой в болотах и реках, кишащих аллигаторами. Тут же рабочие нефтяной компании возятся со своим громоздким оборудованием для бурения скважин, и их прибытие производит огромное впечатление на семью. Во всем фильме, возможно, не более ста строк диалога - гораздо больше говорит камера, красноречивые звуковые эффекты и выразительное музыкальное сопровождение.

Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.

Documentary showing the poor state that American agriculture had fallen into during the Great Depression.

A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.

Pete Roleum, an oil droplet, narrates a presentation about the history and uses of oil: He starts by introducing some of his relations, with illustrations of the things that they have done throughout history. He then turns to the modern era, and shows that oil has a great many important uses, some of which might come as something of a surprise.

The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees walk, stumble, crawl to escape the destruction of their cities... While in the China of tradition, water buffalo still work the paddies and camels cross the desert, modern China is now a republic founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with modern schools, heavy industry, large engineering projects... The government of Chiang Kai-shek resists the Japanese invasion from the coast. Madame Chiang receives a cheque from the U.S.A. for war relief. War production continues in distant villages safe from the grasp of the Japanese. With modern weapons the Chinese are pursuing their struggle behind enemy lines. And still their opponent persists in his reprisal bombings of civilian targets. "Will these people win?"

A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco's forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. The film would have been seen by those making it as a documentary.

A compilation propaganda film produced during the Spanish Civil War.

A compilation propaganda film produced during the Spanish Civil War.

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.

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 industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass bulbs. Machinery assists the bulb manufacture. A virtuoso glassblower begins a more complex tube used in radio broadcasting; it is then turned, fired, and sculpted. Conveyors carry partially completed units. Workers perform their various specific assembly-line tasks. Cases are manufactured and machined, wire harnesses are assembled, loudspeakers are produced. As radios near completion, they are run through a series of tests. Engineers and draughtsmen define future developments. In a closing stop-motion sequence, in a style reminiscent of Norman McLaren, a group of loudspeakers performs a playful dance. The film overall is a poetic depiction of an industrial process.