Balzac 1951
Balzac is a 1951 short documentary film by French director Jean Vidal. It is a biopic on the work, life, and loves of the French playwright and novelist Honoré de Balzac, his evolution as a writer and how his individual works fit into the design of La Comedie Humaine. The film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952 and won first prize for best director at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival the same year.

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Metro 1950
A short documentary about the construction of the parisian subway in the 50s.

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The Birth of Cinema 1946
The prehistory of the cinema as we know it today, with its great inventors: Marey, Muybridge, Reynaud, Edison, the brothers Lumière and their great inventions: the kinetoscope, the praxinoscope, the chromophotograph, the film camera.

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Aubusson 1946
A documentary looking at the school of tapestry-weaving at Aubusson; and at painter Jean Lurçat.

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Animated Cartoons: The Toy That Grew Up 1946
Traces the development of the animated cartoon from a 19th-century children's toy to modern Disney cartoons. Includes a complete animated show as it would have looked in the 1890s.

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