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- Crossover love during the Carnival of Venice. Annina, a fisher girl, is in love with Coramello, the personal barber and handyman of the Duke of Urbino, but she suspects that he cheats on her. On the other hand, old senator Delaqua, who hopes for a better position from the Duke, hides his young wife Barbara from him, insofar as Urbino is an unrepentant Don Juan. But he sends him Ciboletta, his servant, whom he introduces to him as his wife. Many other trysts take place and, of course, confusion ensues - until a happy ending in which the right couples find each other again.
- Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part of the product of a robbery for himself. Thanks to his sister Marcella, Fernand has taken refuge in a small circus where she works. There, he falls in love with Gina but also arouses the jealousy of Quedchi, a fairground stall-holder who has seen him hiding the stolen money. After a while, Fredo Riccioni, the boss of the gang and his men, manage to trace him...
- An artist inspired by his rural childhood memories captures nature's exquisite beauty in molten glass, battling dyslexia and defying critics on his way to international fame.
- A married couple lives in a remote cabin deep in the forest. He is a woodcutter. She remains alone all day long performing the daily chores. Boredom has set in. He is a silent taciturn man who devotes himself to his work - a hard and exhausting work. She contemplates going away. When she does leave the marital home she ends up coming back and resumes her monotonous life.
- A young woman who attempts to commit suicide out of heartache is saved at the last second by a priest accompanying a boys'choir. The clergyman soon learns that Renate, the suicide candidate, is an operator in a Vienna factory, that she has an affair with Robert, the firm's engineer, and that she has a rival in the person of Erika, the managing director's whimsical daughter. Chance has it that the boys'choir must perform in this very factory, which terrifies Renate, who, in the meantime had been adopted by the troupe. She chooses to disappear...
- Engineer Max Klaar raises his tomboy daughter Elisabeth (nicknamed Peter) alone. Nora Christian, a famous actress and Max's ex-wife, resurfaces in the village where father and daughter live. Elisabeth coming across her mother takes her to Max's house. Shortly afterward, Elisabeth nearly drowns herself in the village lake but is saved at the last minute by Helga, a student vacationing in the area. The latter is not immune to the charms of Max but Nora puts an end to the fledgling romance by going away and taking Elisabeth with her. Max is at a loss... but not for long. Elisabeth soon realizes she needs her two parents and manages to reunite them in the end.
- The planet is filled with dust and particles of all kinds, natural or originated by man. Such a state of things has of course a great many consequences for public health, with diseases like silicosis, inherent in various human activities, some of which are detailed (farming, notably the treatment of flax; industrial activity, particularly porcelain and cement work, coal mining).
- This is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
- A visit to a historic district in Paris, Le Marais (The Marsh) through its rich history. From 1240 when the Order of the Temple built their fortified church outside the walls of the city; to the 17th century, as it became the favorite place of the aristocracy; to the 19th and 20th century when Le Marais turned into a commercial area; to the mid-1950s as a campaign of rehabilitation of the various Hôtels particuliers was launched. Now this is 1962 and the film ends with a description of the Place des Vosges.
- Adonis, the King of Bullomania's personal chauffeur, is in love with Princess Ernestine, the King's daughter. To win her heart, he accepts to fight bulls at the bullfighting school. But the princess is also courted by Manuel Risotto, a famous toreador who kidnaps her. The King chases after him in a car driven by Adonis. Unfortunately, the chauffeur lets Risotto run away. In a rage, the King condemns Adonis to the death penalty. But it is without counting a scientist who has invented a rocket, his assistant who falls down in the yard of Adonis's prison, a great escape featuring Adonis and the assistant disguised as bulls, a second abduction of the Princess - but, this time for the just cause of love -, a wild chase and a final flight to another planet!
- Walking in the Parc Monceau, a man is drawn by the sight of two young women sitting on a bench. One is dressed in pink while the other wears blue. They invite the man to follow them offering him an offbeat sexual experience. A very very very offbeat one indeed.
- Ernst Loberlin, a puppeteer, walks into a police station and reports a murder. When the inspectors arrive on the crime scene they are amazed to find that the two victims are ... puppets! Back in the police station, the two policemen are determined to interrogate the puppeteer, but a bad surprise awaits them ...
- In the wee hours of a winter morning, a tiny circus arrives in a village in the Verdun region. Its two members, a clown and a female trapeze artist, set about installing the ring and hope to rally as many spectators as can be. But as the clown advertises for the night act he has the unpleasant surprise to discover that a theatrical performance is slated to be given this very night, featuring a dozen villagers as actors and actresses. The clown and the trapeze artist rehearse just in case but a single little boy - enthusiastic but alone - comes to see them. And in the evening there is no one around the ring. The two disillusioned artists resign themselves: they will have to cancel the performance. What they did not expect is that one their little performing dogs would escape and take refuge in the village just as the people left the Community Hall where the "Eugénie Grandet" had taken place...
- Documentary meant for schoolchildren in which the natural region of the Causse Méjean in Lozère is presented, first though animated maps, then through views of the general landscape, barren and steppe-like. "Le Causse" gradually focuses on the life of a little village, with special attention on the life and work of a particular shepherd
- A persistent amateur composer tries to get a song recorded by a music publisher but the latter refuses in the first place. Only when his star singer Lily Fayol urges him to, and not before a lot of misunderstandings happen, does the publisher finally accept to record it, making it a hit.
- In a small village of Aragon, in the heart of a desert region, an old potter, hitherto one of the community's most vital craftsmen, realizes that he sells fewer and fewer of his products. Blame it on the advent of plastic, cheap and convenient.
- Mrs. Bernard would like her son Georges to become a physician or a lawyer. As for her son, he has another dream: he wants to be a mason, like his father. After a few fruitless efforts at other jobs, he finally follows into his father's steps, with the blessing of his mother.
- Danger on the road is explained to two riders by several French top level athletes: Mady Moreau, a diving champion; Charles Rigoulot, a champion weight-lifter and car racer; Robert Varnajo, a racing cyclist; Robert Villemain, a boxing champion.
- Mr. Van Dyke arrives with his son to discuss the purchase of an inventor's latest creation. While they confer, Sonny, the inventor's son, takes Van Dyke Junior to the local hop where he blatantly flirts with Sonny's girlfriend.
- An evocation of the childhood of the great French writer François-René de Chateaubriand at his father's château in Comboug in Brittany. The text supporting images of the château and its surrounds consists of extracts from the writer's famous "Mémoires d'outre-tombe".
- A badly wounded man runs through the empty streets. At a time he stops in front of a porch and all of a sudden he is shot at. He falls unconscious and when he comes to, he finds he is lying in his bed, with a nun at his bedside. At a loss to understand what is going on, the wounded man, as he is being tended by the nun that she is wearing a rose-shaped pendant necklace around her neck.
- Four filmed songs linked together by a comedy act by cabaret artist Jean Rigaux and the presence of Denise Prévost, Howard Vernon and Rita Stoya. The songs are performed by the already famous Line Renaud, by operetta and middle of the road popular singer Jean Patart, by Lysette Jambel, a singer of the 1950s who divided her career between children's songs and music hall and Nicole Peck, whose career remains obscure.
- In a village in the Alps the people still practice high mountain pasture in common. All the aspects of high mountain pastures are examined here: summer transhumance, the arrival of the "procurers" (the persons responsible for livestock management), the coming of the shepherds, the "remues" (the changing of pasture), mountain life, the sharing of the production and, finally, the village fête.
- After brilliant studies a young man has applied for an executive job. Now he is having an employment interview and it is no pleasure cruise. The recruiter indeed keeps interrupting him all the time asking him increasingly absurd psychological questions. So much so that the applicant winds up breaking down : he yells a volley of insults at his torturer. Against all odds, he is... hired! But...
- Documentary in three parts: 1)The paths of childhood: the childhood and the youth of the great French romantic writer in Milly; his love for horses; his friendship with Father Dumont, his confessor and confidante. 2)The shores of romance: Lamartine's stay in Savoy; his love story with Elvire, a sick young lady. 3)The way to grandeur: Lamartine's return to his native region; his literary work; Lamartine's glory.