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This film explores the rich cheese culture of France, highlighting the variety of cheeses produced across different regions. It details the traditional methods of cheese-making, from selecting quality milk to the aging processes in caves, and emphasizes the French dedication to their culinary heritage. It showcases various types of cheese, including Roquefort, Brie, and goat cheese, explaining their unique characteristics and the artisanal practices involved in their production.
Jan 1986
This film surveys the history of Germany's political systems from Charlemagne to modern times, looking at the regional differences that were the inheritance of the independent states of the 18th century and considering the 19th-century wars of unification, World War I, and Nazism.
Jan 1967
This film exposes the vineyards, press houses, cellars, caves, and tasting rooms of the wine-producing area of the Loire Valley in Touraine, Anjou and Saumur, and the Pays Nantais. Observes the different grape varieties and production methods that yield such well-known wines as the cabernets of Bourgdeill, sparkling Saumur, Rose d'Anjou, Coteaux du Layon, Gros Plan, Muscadet, and the sparkling wines made by the champagne method in Vouvray.
Apr 1986
Using the example of an expedition to the important archaeological site of Çayönü in Turkey, it explains how an expedition works and how the discoveries are processed.
Jan 1965
A purely visual exploration of the four different "centers" of triangles.
Jan 1976
Nanduti, which means cobwebs, is a unique Paraguayan folk art, which may have derived from Spanish crafts. All images are from nature but are interpreted with wonderful imagination and skill. Ñandutí, Lace of Paraguay, by Annick Sanjurjo and Albert J. Casciero, documents the history, evolution and making of this beautiful and delicate lace and it complements the book and e-book of the same title.
Jan 1978
In this melding of art and science, the Cornwells create a quasi-hypnotic take on a mathematical construct.
Short documentary providing a detailed look at different types of film and their uses, with a focus on film used in projectors and how projectionists take care of film to increase longevity. Produced as an upgrade to its namesake short from 1948.
Jan 1959