Continent sans frontière / Kontinent ohne Grenzen? / Continente senza frontiere
Continent sans frontière / Kontinent ohne Grenzen? / Continente senza frontiere
Document date: [1963]
Identity Statement
3 digitised films
Alonso Fernandez, Juan
Content and Structure
Explains the historical as well as economic reasons why six European countries decided to establish the European Coal and Steel Community, EURATOM and the European Economic Community. Rudolf Dumont du Voitel, director of the Information Service of the European Communites in 1963, described the message of the film in an interview: "Continent without frontiers means also a continent without language borders, without political borders, and without economic boundaries. It was meant to be a vision of the future".
Genre
Documentary
Credits
Production Country: Belgium & Germany
Film Production Company: Monitor Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Hamburg
Commissioning Institution: Information Service of the European Communities
Director: Raymond Cartier
Producer: Unknown
Script: Raymond Cartier / Ule J.R. Eith
Cinematography: Unknown
Film Editing: Unknown
Music: Unknown
Advisor: Rudolf Dumont Du Voitel
Technical Information
Original Film Format: Unknown
Duration: 37 minutes
Colour: Colour
European History, European Communities, EURATOM, Ispra, Second World War, European Economy, Labour Migration, Free Movement of Labour, Frontiers, Modernity, Robert Schuman
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French, German, Italian
Video
Allied Materials
Audiovisual Library of the European Commission, Brussels
The film was digitised from the copy located at the Audiovisual Library of the European Commission, Brussels.
Clemens, Gabriele: «Auftrag Europa» – Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Filmwerbung der europäischen Gemeinschaften, in: Gabriele Clemens (ed.): Werben für Europa. Die mediale Konstruktion europäischer Identität durch Europafilme, Paderborn: Schöningh 2016, pp. 43-128.
Notes
Other versions of the films in other languages which are not part of this collection are: Continent zonder grenzen (Dutch) / Continent without Frontiers (English)
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