English transcription: The Gange Kodabek irrigation project, when completed, will furnish water to an enormous area of dry land in Kushtia. Shown here is the pumping station.
French transcription: Projet d'irrigation Gange Kodabak, qui consiste à pomper les eaux du Gange pour irriguer des régions arides. Lorsque les travaux d'aménagement seront terminés, une énorme superficie de l'état de Kushtia sera ainsi irriguée. Ici, une vue de la station de pompage.
Description: View of a building, a car, and three men in the background. In the foreground, part of a dam and a cement block for measuring height.

English transcription: Water take-off to irrigation channel.
French transcription: Canalisation de l'eau dans les canaux d'irigation.
Description: Iraqi citizen builds a channel with the help of UNESCO to build a farm.

English transcription: Chatou Hydraulics Laboratory. An engineer studies a model of the Gerstheim Dam on the Rhine.
French transcription: Laboratoire d'hydraulique de Chatou. Un ingénieur fait une étude sur une maquette du barrage de Gerstheim sur le Rhin.
Description: A man puts a device into the flow of a river.
Location: Chatou.

English transcription: The Middle East Technical University receives assistance from the United Nations as part of its Development Programs, with UNESCO acting as executing agent. The aim of the United Nations Development Program is, in this case, to develop the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering as well as to provide facilities for teaching and research in various fields of science and technology. The hydro-electric Section.
French transcription: L'Université Technique du Moyen-Orient est assistée par le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution. La Programme a pour but, en particulier, de développer la Faculté d’Architecture et celle d’Ingénieurs et de faciliter l’enseignement et la recherche dans les divers domaines de la science et de la technologie. Ici, la section hydro-électrique.
Description: A group of people are examining water fall down a man-made stream.
Location: Ankara.

English transcription: Chatou Hydraulic Laboratory. Model of a break-water at the Port of Dunkerque.
French transcription: Laboratoire d'Hydraulique de Chatou. Maquette du port de Dunkerque ; un brise vague.
Description: Un homme est accroupi auprès d'un plan d'eau, il observe et met sa main sur une petite digue faite de tube en plastique. Parallèle à cette digue, se trouve une autre faite d'herbes.
Location: Chatou.

English transcription: Hydrological Studies of the Upper Paraguay River Basin. The purpose of the Project is to set up a hydro-meteorological network in the region, and to conduct surveys to investigate the hydraulic system of the Pantanal. At the same time, environmental studies will be carried out, and an attempt will be made to establish a flood forecasting system based on an experimental model. The United Nations Development Programme has concluded an agreement with the Brazilian Government to cooperate in this Project, only in the Brazilian area known as the Pantanal. UNESCO has the responsibility for the implementation of this Project. Mr. A. de Gamarra, Spanish language editor at UNESCO Press Division and Mr. Paulo Poggi Pereira (Brazil), right, engineer and co-Director of the Programme examining a map of the Project.
French transcription: Études hydrologiques du haut-bassin du Rio Paraguay. Ce projet prévoit la mise en place d'un réseau hydro-météorelogique dans cette région, ainsi que l’examen du système hydraulique de la région du Pantanal. En même temps, des études des conditions locales seront entreprises ainsi qu’un essai pour établir un système de prévision des crues, basé sur un modèle expérimentale. Le Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement – dont l’UNESCO est l'agent d’exécution – a conclu un accord avec le Gouvernement brésilien pour coopérer à ce projet dans la seule région du Pantanal. M. A. de Gamarra, Rédacteur en chef de la Division de Presse de l’UNESCO (langue espagnole), regarde sur la carte du Brésil, l’emplacement du projet que lui montre M. Paulo Poggi Pereira (Brésil), ingénieur, co-directeur du Programme.
Description: Two men in shirts and ties, facing away from the camera, look at a framed map of Brazil mounted on the wall. Both men are wearing glasses. The man on the right points to a spot on the map. The other man has his hand on the table, holding a pen. On the table is a notebook and a coffee cup and saucer.
Location: Corumbá.

English transcription: The Hydrological Studies of the Upper Paraguay basin (Pantanal) Project was started in 1967 by the United Nations Development Programme (with UNESCO as executing agency) assisting the Brazilian National Department of Public Works (DNOS). A sophisticated weather control system, put up in the area, allowed experts to forecast as soon as January 1974 the serious floods that swept the Pantanal in April the same year. Thanks to this forecast, the Brazilian authorities were able to warn, in time, the local population thus saving thousands of cattle. Zebus in a Pantanal corral.
French transcription: Le projet d'études hydrologique du bassin supérieur du Paraguay (Pantanal) a été lancé en 1967 grâce à une aide allouée au Département national des travaux publics du Brésil (DNOS) par le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement dont l'UNESCO est l’agent d'exécution. Un système complexe de contrôle de la situation météorologique a été installé dans le Pantanal. Grâce à lui, les experts ont pu prévoir, dès le mois de janvier 1974, les inondations catastrophiques qui frappèrent la région en avril de la même année. Ces prévisions permirent aux autorités de donner l’alerte et de sauver des milliers de têtes de bétail. Zébus parqués dans un « corral » du Pantanal.
Description: In the foreground, three cattle farmers sit on a wooden enclosure. Each, including one looking directly at the camera, wears a straw hat. In the background, hundreds of zebus in a fenced enclosure. Behind the enclosure is the open range of the Pantanal landscape.

English transcription: Submerged palms in the river Nile near the town of Aniba.
French transcription: Palmiers inondés par le Nil près d'Aniba.
Description: Seven palm trees submerged in the river. In the background a range of hills and a town in the valley in the center. The town of Aniba is today flooded by the Lake Nasser.
Location: Aniba.

English transcription: At the request of the Governments of Algeria and Tunisia, a study of the ground water resources of the Northern Sahara was undertaken by UNESCO, acting as the executing Agency for the United Nations Development Programme. According to the experts, this immense territory of 500,000 sq. miles contains sufficient underground water to guarantee the agricultural development of double the existing irrigated land which could conceivably create 20,000 to 30,000 new jobs by 2000. The oasis of Timimoun.
French transcription: À la demande des gouvernements algérien et tunisien, une étude des ressources en eau du sous-sol du Sahara septentrional a été entreprise par le Programme des Nations-Unies pour le développement dont l'UNESCO est l'agent d'exécution. Selon les experts, cet immense territoire de 800 000 km2 recèle toute l'eau nécessaire pour garantir le développement hydro-agricole en doublant la surface des terres irriguées et pour favoriser la création de 20 000 à 30 000 emplois nouveaux d'ici l'an 2000. L'oasis de Timimoun située dans cette région.
Description: View of the Timimoun oasis with desert in the background.

English transcription: A UNESCO expert and a UNESCO fellowship holder carrying out hydro-geological research work.
French transcription: Recherches géologiques par un expert de l'UNESCO en hydro-géologie (à droite) et un boursier de l'Organisation.
Description: Two men are working outdoors in the field and are doing hydro-geological research. They are holding digging equipment and some soil or stone.

English transcription: Arid zones. A UNESCO expert (left) and a UNESCO fellowship holder carrying out hydro-geological research work.
French transcription: Recherches géologiques par un expert de l'UNESCO en hydrologie à gauche et un boursier de l'Organisation.
Description: Sur une colline pleine de cactus, deux hommes sont pliés à observer le sol. Au loin on voit des collines, il n'y a pas d'habitation.

English transcription: Hydraulic laboratory at Chatou. Young engineers visiting the laboratory are seen here in front of a model of the Rio Repal Dam, Chile.
French transcription: Laboratoire d’hydraulique de Chaton. De jeunes ingénieurs en visite au laboratoire, devant la maquette du barrage du Rie Repal au Chili.
Description: There are 8 researchers working together on the dam.
Location: Chatou.

English transcription: Weismann Scientific Institute. Hydrological research on the origin of streams and underground water is facilitated by the introduction of traces of radioactive tritium. Here, radioactive tritium being measured into a container.
French transcription: Institut Weismann des Sciences. Recherches hydrologiques : l’origine des sources, l’âge des eaux, le tracé des infiltrations purent être connus grâce à l’analyse du tritium radioactif mélangé à ces eaux. Ici, mesure du tritium.
Description: This guy is checking on this electrical box and making sure it works correctly.
Location: Rohovot.

English transcription: The West Pakistan Research Institute is assisted by the United Nations Special Fund which supplied the equipment. The behaviour of river flow is studied before and after the construction of dams. A model of the Gudu dam showing the bed of the River Indus above and below the dam.
French transcription: L’Institut ouest-pakistanais de recherche sur l’irrigation est aidé par le Fonds spécial des Nations Unies qui a fourni l’équipement. On y étudie le comportement des fleuves à la suite de modifications du courant dues à des travaux hydrauliques. Ici, sur le terrain expérimental de l’Institut, le lit de l’Indus en amont et en aval du barrage de Gudu.
Description: There are 5 people working on the dam. There are a lot of trees also.
Location: Nandipur.

English transcription: The West Pakistan Irrigation Research Institute is assisted by the United Nations Special Fund which supplied the equipment. The behavior of river flow is studied before and after the construction of dams. Here, on the Institute testing ground, specialists study the effects of the Mangla Dam, which is under construction.
French transcription: L'Institut ouest-pakistanais de recherche sur l'irrigation est aidé par le Fonds Spécial des Nations Unies qui a fourni l'équipement. On y étudie le comportement des fleuves à la suite de modifications du courant dues à des travaux hydrauliques. Ici, sur l'Indus reconstitué sur le terrain de l’Institut, des spécialistes étudient les effets du barrage de Manila actuellement en construction.
Description: One specialist is testing on a dam a kind of water machine. Another one is watching the Jhelum river flow.
Location: Mandipur.

English transcription: Work is progressing rapidly on construction of the Nagoya-Kobe Expressway which is scheduled to be the first four-lane, divided, limited access highway in Japan. The new highway is being built by the Nihon Doro Kodan (Japan Highway Public Corporation), a government corporation responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of toll roads and related facilities. The International Bank has, so far, loaned US$80 million to help finance work on the 115-mile highway. Here, technicians test samples of different types of asphalts in the Yamashina (Kyoto) laboratory of the Nihon Doro Kodan.
Description: Two women wearing scrubs are in front of two pans. One of them holds a sort of stick dipped in a pan. In the background, a blackboard with mathematics formulas.
Location: Yamashina.

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organization. The Faraday Cage Room.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. La salle Cage de Faraday.
Description: A large metal tube connected to another metal tube but smaller. In the background a walkway.
Location: Meyrin (near Geneva).

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organization. Tracer chambers. Constructing the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber, the shell of which is 2 meters long.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. Ici, chambres à tracer. Construction de la chambre à bulles à hydrogène liquide. Longueur du corps de la chambre 2m.
Description: Three men on a platform with different equipement assembled. Many pipes and electronic engines.
Location: Meyrin (near Geneva).

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organization. Engineer François Julliard in front of the magnetic lens used for focusing the particle beams extracted.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. Ici, l'ingénieur François Julliard devant la lentille magnétique de focalisation du faisceau de particules extraites.
Description: A man with gown taking measures in front of a big device with a hole in the middle. In the background a warning sign.
Location: Meyrin (near Geneva).

English transcription: European Organization for Nuclear Research. Twelve nations are members of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), a new organization set up under UNESCO sponsorship to aid the co-operation between separate research centers in the field of nuclear theory. The CERN program is concentrated on two big machines, a synchro-cyclotron and a proton-synchrotron, now under construction at the CERN laboratory site near Geneva. The synchro-cyclotron is designed to work at the 600 million electron volts energy level; it consists of a vacuum chamber between the circular poles of a 2,500 tons electro-magnet. Protons are injected in this chamber and accelerated along a spiral path by high frequency electrical forces until they reach speeds approaching 250,000 km. per second. This picture shows the heat-exchangers of the water cooling system of the synchro-cyclotron.
Description: Equipment with pipes, valve handwheels, control panels.
Location: Geneva.

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organization. Engineer Gentsch is one of those doing research work on the new accelerator.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. Ici, l'ingénieur Gentsch participe aux travaux de recherches du nouvel accélérateur.
Description: A man wearing a gown surrounded by equipment. Room full of engines. In the background electric board and stepladder.
Location: Meyrin (near Geneva).

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organization. The main control room of the proton-synchrotron. Seated, technician Saulnier.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. Ici, la salle de commande principale du synchrotron à protons. Assis, le technicien, M. Saulnier.
Description: A man sitting in front of several control panels with screens, microphones, measurement screens and phone.
Location: Meyrin (near Geneva).

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organization. The administrative building.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. Le bâtiment administratif.
Description: A building with big windows and cars parked besides. On the foreground, a small tree and a roc on a grass.
Location: Meyrin (near Geneva).

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organization. The control room of an experiment with electronic counters.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. Ici, la salle de commande d'une expérience à l'aide de compteurs électroniques.
Description: A man sitting in front of a desk. Behind him, a control panels wall with plenty of cables.
Location: Meyrin (near Geneva).

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organisation. General view of the different laboratories.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. Ici, vue générale sur les différents laboratoires.
Description: A lot of buildings, laboratories, cars and few trees. In the background, we can see fields.
Location: Meyrin (near Geneva).

English transcription: C.E.R.N. (European Organization for Nuclear Research) was created in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO and, at present, 13 European countries are members of the Organization. Professor G. Fidecaro the eminent Italian physicist (left) talks with technician Renevey, responsible for preparing experimental equipment.
French transcription: Le C.E.R.N. (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), créé en 1952 sous les auspices de l'UNESCO, groupe actuellement treize États européens. Ici, le Professeur G. Fidecaro (à gauche), physicien italien s'entretient avec le technicien, M. Renevey, chargé de la préparation d'un appareil expérimental.
Description: Two men, one wearing a gown, the other a suit, stand in front of laboratory equipment.
Location: Meyrin.

English transcription: The International Centre for Theoretical Physics, operated jointly by UNESCO and the International Atomic Energy Agency, each year offers to over 500 scientists, mostly from the developing countries, the use of its facilities which include lectures in the amphitheatre by some of the "greats" of modern physics. Scientists from various countries consulting the newspapers at the Centre's reading room. Handwritten: "Dr. K. Kademova, Institute of Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia trying her Italian (reading room)."
French transcription: Le Centre international de physique théorique, créé conjointement par l'UNESCO et l'Agence internationale pour l'énergie atomique, permet, chaque année, à plus de 500 savants venant pour la plupart de pays en voie de développement de travailler et d'entendre dans l'amphithéâtre des conférences qui leur sont faites par les "as" de la physique moderne. Des savants de diverses nationalités consultent la presse à la salle de lecture du Centre.
Location: Trieste.

French transcription: Bateau de recherches océanographiques destiné à la Birmanie, financé par la Norvège. Des moyens de formation océanographique et un navire de recherche pour la Birmanie. Un navire côtier de formation et de recherche de 16 mètres a été remis aux autorités birmanes au cours de cérémonies qui se sont déroulées le 15 juin au chantier naval de Risør en Norvège, où le navire a été construit par la société Lindstøls Skips Batbyggeri A/S et où son capitaine birman, ainsi qu'un ingénieur et un scientifique de haut niveau ont reçu une formation préalable d'un mois en attendant une formation en cours d'emploi complémentaire en Birmanie. Le navire, qui a coûté 650 000 dollars, a été financé par le Gouvernement norvégien auquel l'UNESCO a prêté son concours technique dans le cadre du projet PNUD/UNESCO visant à renforcer l'enseignement et la recherche dans le domaine de l'océanographie au Moulmein College (Moulmein, Birmanie). Le navire peut accueillir jusqu'à 20 étudiants en biologie marine et il jouera un rôle prépondérant dans le programme national d'exploitation scientifique des pêches abondamment peuplées qui bordent les 3 000 kilomètres de littoral que compte la Birmanie.
Description: Three men on a boat used for Oceanographic research . In the background, rocks and trees.
Location: Risør.

English transcription: The Helsingor Laboratory for Marine Biology, in which four UNESCO scholarship-holders work permanently. An expert examining living specimens drawn from the bottom of the sea.
French transcription: Laboratoire de biologie marine de Helsingor où travaillent en permanence quatre boursiers de l'UNESCO. Un expert examine les éléments vivants contenus dans la boue qui a été draguée de la mer.
Description: A man looking into a plastic basin with water inside. In the background, a water surface.
Location: Helsingør.

English transcription: The Helsingør Laboratory for Marine Biology for which four UNESCO scholarship-holders work permanently. This 'laboratory ship' was created by the UNESCO fellowship-holders.
French transcription: Laboratoire de biologie marine d'Helsingor où travaillent en permanence quatre boursiers de l'UNESCO. Ce bateau-laboratoire a été réalisé par les boursiers de l'UNESCO.
Description: Three men on a docked boat. One of them is getting out of the boat. A fourth men is looking at the boat from the dock. The boat has a sign saying Helsingor.
Location: Helsingør.

English transcription: The Helsinger Laboratory for Marine Biology, in which four UNESCO scholarship-holders work permanently. Examining specimens drawn from the bottom of the bay.
French transcription: Laboratoire de biologie marine de Helsinger où travaillent en permanence quatre boursiers de l'UNESCO. Dragage de la boue.
Description: Trois hommes sont sur un bateau : deux jeunes et un plus âgés. Ils portent des bottes et des vetements chauds. Ils sont en train de regarder le contenu d'un sac qui a récolté de la boue. On voit au loin la baie.
Location: Helsinger.

English transcription: International Indian Ocean Expedition. Aboard an oceanographic research ship, a specialist is taking plankton samples from a net.
French transcription: A bord d'un navire de recherches océanographiques, un spécialiste retire des échantillons de plancton d'un filet qui vient d'être remonté de la mer.
Description: On a boat, a man is holding a small net.

English transcription: International Research Project in Norwegian Fjords. Transport of live herring from the open fjord into a closed bay.
French transcription: Projet international d'étude des fjords norvégiens. Transport de hareng vivant d'un fjord ouvert dans une baie fermée.
Description: Four men on a boat. We can see a bay in the background.

English transcription: On 8 July 1975, the ancient Burmese city of Pagan was ravaged by an earthquake and many splendid monuments were badly damaged. In December 1975, a UNESCO expert visited Pagan at the request of the Burmese government to make an inventory of the damage produced by the earthquake. A general view of the Pagan temples, looking towards the south-east with the Zeishe stupa in the foreground.
French transcription: Le 8 Juillet 1975, l'ancienne cité birmane de Pagan fut ravagée par un séisme et de magnifiques monuments furent endommagés. Un expert fut envoyé par l'UNESCO en Décembre 1975 à la demande du gouvernement birman afin de faire une évaluation des dégâts. Une vue panoramique des temples de Pagan, vers le sud-est. Au premier plan, le stupa de Zeishe.
Description: A general view of the Pagan temples, looking towards the south-east with the Zeishe stupa in the foreground. There are bamboo scaffoldings aroud it.
Location: Pagan

English transcription: On 8 July 1975, the ancient Burmese city of Pagan was ravaged by an earthquake and many splendid monuments were badly damaged. In December 1975, a UNESCO expert visited Pagan at the request of the Burmese government to make an inventory of the damage produced by the earthquake. A general view of Kyam Ma Bad temple as seen from Gawdawpalin.
French transcription: Le 8 Juillet 1975, l'ancienne cité birmane de Pagan fut ravagée par un séisme et de magnifiques monuments furent endommagés. Un expert fut envoyé par l'UNESCO en Décembre 1975 à la demande du gouvernement birman afin de faire une évaluation des dégâts. Vue générale du temple de Kyam Ma Bad vu du temple de Gawdawpalin.
Description: A general view of Kyam Ma Bad temple as seen from Gawdawpalin, a valley with many temples.
Location: Pagan

English transcription (edited): Gooderham Day School for indigenous children, situated in the Paul First Nation, has 74 pupils aged between 6 and 14. The Paul Band located in Duffield has 350 inhabitants who continue to use the traditional Cree and Stoney languages of their ancestors. During a class.
French transcription (édité): La Gooderham Day School, école pour enfants enfants indigènes située dans la Réserve de Pauls Nation, comprend 74 élèves âgés de 6 à 14 ans. Les Indiens de Paul Band de 350 habitants parlent toujours les langues cree et stoney de leurs ancêtres. Ici pendant un cours.
Description: Dans une salle de classe, les élèves sont assis à leur bureau. L'institutrice est debout. Elle aide un petit garçon à tracer un trait à la règle.

English transcription (edited): Gooderham Day School for indigenous children, situated in the Paul First Nation, has 74 pupils aged between 6 and 14. The Paul Band located in Duffield has 350 inhabitants who continue to use the traditional Cree and Stoney languages of their ancestors. During the recreation period, the children can borrow books on various subjects.
French transcription (édité): La Gooderham Day School, école pour enfants enfants indigènes située dans la Réserve de Pauls Nation, comprend 74 élèves âgés de 6 à 14 ans. Les Indiens de Paul Band de 350 habitants parlent toujours les langues Cree et Stoney de leurs ancêtres. Pendant la récréation, les élèves peuvent emprunter des livres sur des sujets variés.
Description: Dans une bibliothèque, un petit garçon est debout, appuyé sur les étagères. Il lit un livre sur l'histoire du Canada. Un globe est posé sur l'étagère. Il y a des cartes et posters au mur.

English transcription (edited): Gooderham Day School for indigenous children, situated in the Paul First Nation, has 74 pupils aged between 6 and 14. The Paul Band located in Duffield has 350 inhabitants who continue to use the traditional Cree and Stoney languages of their ancestors. During a class.
French transcription (édité): La Gooderham Day School, école pour enfants enfants indigènes située dans la Réserve de Pauls Nation, comprend 74 élèves âgés de 6 à 14 ans. Les Indiens de Paul Band de 350 habitants parlent toujours les langues Cree et Stoney de leurs ancêtres. Ici, pendant un cours.
Description: A young school girl looks at another school girl's paper in a classroom full of children, both boys and girls. The teacher is in the back of the classroom and looking at pictures on the wall. The children seem to be waiting for the distribution of their papers.

English transcription: A primary school in the La Kouanga district. An experimental class: a french lesson for first year pupils.
French transcription: Ecole primaire du quartier La Kouanga. Classe expérimentale : cours préparatoire première année une leçon de français.
Description: Five young students, three girls and two boys, are holding small chalkboards over their heads. Each board contains one word and when read left to right, the boards together spell out the sentence "nous avons une jolie maison." The sentence - illustrated by a drawing of a family compound entitled "la jolie case de moussa" - is repeated on the blackboard behind the students.

French transcription: Ecole n°1 (lycée), cours d'anglais.
Description: In a classroom, seven uniformed girls are seated at scattered individual desks, studying learning materials. A female teacher is standing next to one of the students, pointing out a text at the bottom of the right hand page.

English transcription: Klouto rural school a singing lesson and young pupils.
French transcription: Education - à l'école rurale de Klouto, les petites filles apprennent à chanter - des petits élèves pendant une leçon.
Description: Four young girls in a row, dressed in white, singing. The girl in the front has an earring.

English transcription: Tamagawa Gakuen School. Outdoor philosophy class for primary school children.
French transcription: Ecole Tamagawa Gakuen. Une leçon en plein air pour les élèves d'une classe primaire.
Description: Dans une forêt, les enfants, garçons et filles, sont assis en rond. Au centre, le professeur est appuyé à un arbre. Il a les cheveux blancs. Il parle et les élèves écoutent, certains sourient. Le groupe respire la joie. En arrière plan, des arbres assez hauts peuvent être des pins.

English transcription: Khanh-hâu primary school, attached to the Tân-ân Fundamental Education Centre. Nature-study walk through the fields.
French transcription: Ecole primaire communautaire de Khanh-hâu, rattachée au Centre d'Education de Base de Tân-An. Ici, leçon-promenade à travers les rizières.
Description: Des petits garçons tous habillés d'un short et d'une chemise blanche marchent à la queue-leu-leu derrière leur maître à travers une rizière. Derrière eux, un panneau et une route. Au loin, quelques arbres.

English transcription: A primary school in the La Kouanga district. An experimental class - a reading lesson for first year pupils.
French transcription: Ecole primaire du quartier La Kouanga. Classe expérimentale - cours préparatoire de première année. Une leçon de lecture.
Description: In a classroom, a young girl dressed in white, with earrings and a bracelet, is using a long pointer to read letters written with chalk on a tall blackboard.

English transcription: These children from the Chiapas Highlands of Mexico are benefitting from the Mexican Government's comprehensive rural development programme, which takes advantage of opportunities for services benefitting children to be built up as part of the social component of development. Improving educational opportunities for children in underserved Indian areas is one way of promoting the incorporation of the Indian population into the mainstream of development activities.
Description: Five laughing children wearing tunics look at two textbooks.

English transcription: Pupils in the Rural School.
French transcription: Enfants de l'Ecole Rurale.
Description: Crowd of pupils outside, wearing white tunics, some with a satchel on their backs. They are all facing away from the camera.

English transcription: Pupils during a lesson in a bush school.
French transcription: Des élèves pendant un cours à l'école de brousse.
Description: In the foreground, a young student sitting on a dirt floor concentrates on writing with a quill pen. He uses his knee as a make-shift desk. In the background, there are at least eight other students, some writing and others focused on a teacher off-frame. None of the boys has a proper desk at which to work.

French transcription: Un "homeland" dans la province du Ciskei.
Description: An adult and two children are at a table, covered with an intricate cloth, in what appears to be a home setting. One of the children stands while the other is seated; there are papers in front of them and one child holds a pen. Their guardian and/or teacher sits with them, looking on with a rather serious expression. In the background, we see a wall calendar and a small television.

English transcription: Pupils during a lesson in a bush school.
French transcription: Des élèves pendant un cours à l'école de brousse.
Description: In the foreground, three students sit shoulder to shoulder studying what appears to be a handwritten text, possibly a notebook. Leaning on a handmade desk of bamboo, the boys are completely engaged in their task. In the background, other students read and work together.

English transcription: Pupils during a lesson in a bush school.
French transcription: Des élèves pendant une leçon à l'école de brousse.
Description: In a rural clearing, some 20 primary school students are sitting in four rows on log benches. Most of them have personal chalkboards, either in their hands, on their laps, or at their feet. There is a textbook in the first row, and school bags in the rows behind. All but four of the students - who look at the photographer- are paying attention to the teacher.

French transcription: Projet l'Ecole du Village. Cours d'alphabétisation et vie au village.
Description: Eight clearly visible children in a crowded classroom, all busy writing on handheld chalkboards.

English transcription: Klouto rural school - when there is nobody at home to look after tem, the toddlers and babies often go to school with the older children.
French transcription: Education - école rurale de Klouto. Les tout petits accompagnent souvent leurs aînés lorsqu'il n'y a personne à la maison pour les garder.
Description: A partial view of a classroom. Two boys are busy with writing lessons. One of the boys is accompanied by his much younger brother, who holds him.

English transcription: Pupils of a village primary school.
French transcription: Enfants d'une classe primaire d'un village de Upper Volta - Burkina Faso.
Description: Primary school children in a classroom, three paying atention to a teacher, and one, hands clasped, looking at the photographer.

English transcription: Benito Juarez rural school. A class.
French transcription: Ecole rurale Benito Juarez. Une classe .
Description: A busy classroom in which seven girls sit in two rows at the back and ten boys sit in two rows in the front. All but one student is writing in school exercise books with heads bent down.

English transcription: Pupils in the Rural School.
French transcription: Enfants de l'Ecole Rurale.
Description: Outdoors, in mountainous surroundings, numerous mixed students of a rural school are raising their hands and/or holding up booklets and papers to mark a flag-raising ceremony. The school staff and teachers are scattered around in front of them.

English transcription: Chimborazo project of the Andean Indian Programme. The school in the village of Batsacon.

Description: Dans une salle de classe, les élèves en arrière plan sont assis à une table, tandis que des élèves en premier plan sont assis, en cercle, par terre. L'instituteur enseigne au moyen d'une baguette et de pions posés au sol.

French transcription: Ecole de haute montagne.
Description: Dans une salle de classe improvisée, décorée de guirlandes de petits fanions, des enfants suivent un cours.

English transcription: An open-air class at the Kalakankar primary school.
French transcription: Classe en plein air à l'école primaire de Kalakankar.
Description: In front of a school building, a male teacher dressed in white, and wielding a stick, is conducting a lesson for a large group of boys and girls who are sitting or squatting on the ground. To the left, many of the students are looking at the photographer. A sign is posted next to the door of the school and a large inscription has been handwritten on a wall to the right.

English transcription: Young Pakistani girls attending school in a new building in Mustufa Welfare Town, Lahore, where a programme of community development has been started.
French transcription: Une classe à la nouvelle école de Mustufa Welfare Town qui est un quartier de Lahore où un programme de développement communautaire a été mis sur pied.
Description: In their new school building, around 10 - mostly smiling - girls are sitting cross-legged in rows on the floor. The girl in front is hiding her smile with a well-worn textook.

English transcription: Young pupils of a primary school in the region of Kathmandou.
French transcription: Petits élèves d'une école de la région de Kathmandou.
Description: Indoors, three young boys sitting cross legged in a row on woven floor mats study school materials set out before them. The scene is made vivid by strong sunlight streaming through an opening on the left.

English transcription: Village school: a class.
French transcription: L’école du village : une classe.
Description: Pupils of a village school in their classroom. On the wall of the classroom, there are some charts. There is a sketch of a duck on a chart.

English transcription: A class in the mountain region.
French transcription: Une classe dans la région des plateaux montagnards.
Description: An improvised, open-air classroom in session, with 11 boys seated or standing in three rows. They each have chalkboards to work with.

English transcription: With the view of assisting the Government of Afghanistan in its education programme, UNESCO has sent an advisory expert on rural schooling. Some of the classes of the Sarai-Khodja primary school are so overcrowded, due to the lack of space, that many pupils have th work, seated on the floor.
French transcription: En vue d’assister le gouvernement afghan dans son programme d’enseignement, l’UNESCO a envoyé sur place un expert chargé de conseiller les écoles rurales. Ici, à l’école communale de Sarai-Khodja, certaines classes sont surpeuplées à cause du manque de locaux et beaucoup d’enfants doivent travailler, assis par terre.
Description: Fourteen pupils sit on the floor in a classroom. Most are busy writing with their heads down.

English transcription: With the view of assisting the government of Afghanistan in its education programme, UNESCO has sent an advisory expert on rural schooling. Pupils during a lesson at the local primary school.
French transcription: En vue d'assister le gouvernement afghan dans son programme d'enseignement, l'UNESCO a envoyé sur place un expert chargé de conseiller les écoles rurales. Ici, des élèves pendant une leçon à l'école communale.
Description: Dans une salle de classe, quatre garçons avec un béret sur la tête sont regroupés autour d'un bureau. Ils sont en train d'écrire sur des feuilles, tous sur la même table. Il y a une fenêtre derrière eux.

English transcription: With the view of assisting the government of Afghanistan in its education programme, UNESCO has sent an advisory expert on rural schooling. A teacher in the classroom of the local primary school.
French transcription: En vue d’assister 10 gouvernement afghan dans son programme d’enseignement , l’UNESCO a envoyé sur place un expert chargé de conseiller les écoles rurales. Ici, une institutrice fait un cours à l’école communale.
Description: In a classroom, there are nine pupils and a teacher. The teacher is reading a aloud from a book. There are bench, table, chair, blackboard, some charts on the wall. The room has a window.

English transcription: With the view of assisting the government of Afghanistan in its education programme, UNESCO has sent an advisory expert on rural schooling. Pupils during a lesson at the local primary school.
French transcription: En vue d'assister le gouvernement afghan dans son programme d'enseignement, l'UNESCO a envoyé sur place un expert chargé de conseiller les écoles rurales. Ici, des élèves pendant une leçon à l'école communale.
Description: Portrait d'un petit garçon à son pupitre en train d'écrire. Il porte un bonnet et des vêtements chauds. Derrière lui, un autre garçon habillé de la même façon est assis à son bureau.

English transcription: Primary school for boys. Pupils during a spelling lesson.
French transcription: Ecole primaire de garçons. Des éléves pendant le leçon d'orthographe.
Description: Two small boys sitting at a wooden desk with chalk and chalkboards. One looks straight ahead whilst the other looks at the camera with a smile. In the background, other children and desks can be seen.

English transcription: Primary school for boys. A spelling lesson.
French transcription: Ecole primaire de garçons. Leçon d'orthographe.
Description: A group of schoolchildren in a classroom are holding up and showing their chalkboards. Some are smiling, looking towards the front, or looking at the camera.

English transcription: "A child’s interest in learning is natural." On this premise a team of educators, expert in experimental methods for improving teaching of educators, expert in experimental methods for improving teaching techniques, have started a thirst for knowledge which may well change the whole concept of education in Bolivia’s grade school system. In a new school built by the Government in the Miraflores section of La Paz, the Bolivian teaching staff, supervised by a team of UNESCO experts is placing the emphasis during the formative years on teaching children how to learn. Functional laboratories in mathematics, grammar and the social and natural sciences give relative independence to the student body so that the pace of perception is governed by individual capacity to absorb knowledge. Here a student in the writing class concentrates on lesson.

Description: In a classroom, a school boy is writing on paper. He looks very concentrated.

English transcription: Tamagawa Gakuen School. Japanese language lesson for primary school pupils.
French transcription: Ecole primaire Tamagawa Gakuen. Leçon de japonais.
Description: Dans une salle de classe, les élèves sont assis à une grande table. Ils repassent leur leçon et écrivent. Au fond, le professeur assis explique quelque chose à une élève debout. Un autre élève attend son tour. Derrière eux, des étagères pleines de livres.

French transcription: Projet d'alphabétisation L'Ecole du village.
Description: At least four children in a classroom on wooden desks, writting in their exercise books. One of the students, a girl, is watching something in front of her. There is a window next to them.

French transcription: Assistance technique de l'UNESCO. L'école de village ouverte en 1958, par le Centre d'éducation de base pour le Paraguay, avec l'aide de l'UNESCO.
Description: Dans une salle de classe, de jeunes enfants sont en train d'apprendre à écrire. Une femme est penchée sur l'un des enfants et l'aide à tracer les lettre sur son cahier. Elle est coiffée d'un chignon et porte une chemise.

English transcription: A class in the school of Tabrikt.
French transcription: Les élèves pendant une classe à l'école du Tabrikt.
Description: Dans une salle de classe, des élèves, des petits garçons, sont assis à leur bureau. Ils sont en train d'écrire en arabe, certains sur des cahiers, d'autres sur des ardoises.

English transcription: Pupils doing their homework in the common room of Chateau Holden, welfare centre for small Algerian shoe-shine boys.
French transcription: Château Holden ; Centre d'accueil pour les petits cireurs algériens. Des élèves apprennent leurs leçons dans une salle commune.
Description: De jeunes garçons sont assis autours d'une table en train de lire des livres. Leurs cartables sont posés sur la table devant eux.

English transcription: Lesson in a primary school at Nouakchott.
French transcription: Un instituteur donne des explications au cours d'une leçon à l'école primaire.
Description: Dans une salle de classe, des élèves sont assis à des bureaux en train de travailler. Un élève debout tient un livre dans ses mains pendant que l'instituteur, vêtu d’une robe blanche, lui donne des explications en pointant le texte du doigt.

English transcription: Primary school class.
French transcription: Une classe à l'école primaire.
Description: Primary school children sit in a classroom at their desks with their hands in the air to answer the teacher's questions.

English transcription: Lesson in primary school at Nouakchott.
French transcription: Un instituteur donne des explications au cours d'une leçon à l'école primaire.
Description: Dans une salle de classe, un instituteur est au tableau. Il écrit quelque chose en arabe à la craie. A côté de lui, une petite élève pointe le tableau avec une règle.

English transcription: Primary school children waiting for lessons to begin.
French transcription: Les élèves attendent le moment d'entrer devant l'école primaire.
Description: Dans une cour sablonneuse, les élèves sont rangés par classe. Ils font la queue devant chaque classe. L'instituteur est sur le pas de la porte. L'école n'a qu'un étage et on voit six portes.

English transcription: Classroom of the school of Tabrikt.
French transcription: Ecole du Tabrikt. Une classe.
Description: A classroom full of children are being taught by a male teacher standing in front of a blackboard with pictures affixed near it. There is Arabic writing on the blackboard.

English transcription: Primary school.
French transcription: École primaire.
Description: Des élèves, garçons et filles, sont assis en plusieurs rangées de bureaux en bois. Il lisent des livres ouverts devant eux. Un professeur aide un jeune garçon à lire un texte. Une fille - arborant un grand sourire - regarde le photographe.

English transcription: Arid zones. A school in the wilderness. A class for small children.
French transcription: Zones arides. L'école du bled. Petits écoliers pendant une classe.
Description: In the foreground, two young boys sit close together in their classroom. They are using quill pens and an ink pot to write notes. With intense looks of concentration, both children appear to be fully engaged in the lesson. In the background, we see six other students - possibly older boys - at their desks.

English transcription: A class in temporary accomodation of the village school while the new building is under construction.
French transcription: En attendant la nouvelle école en cours de construction, la classe est faite dans cette sorte de hutte.
Description: Une salle de classe aménagée dans une hutte. Les enfant sont assis à leur pupitre. Ils ont tous devant eux un cahier. Certains lèvent la main. Un enfant est debout. Le toit de la hutte est fait de plantes et le plafond est bas et protège de la chaleur.

English transcription: Pupils during a lesson.
French transcription: Des élèves pendant un cours.
Description: Four girls are seated at desks in a classroom reading and writing. They are holding pencils and writing in notebooks. There are notebooks in the foreground.

English transcription: Primary school.
French transcription: Ecole primaire.
Description: Seven boys seated on the ground in front of a blackboard, on which is affixed a large peice of paper featuring Amharic writing. The boys have learning materials, on the cover of which are a map of Ethiopia, the words "Adult Education," and Amharic writing. Four boys are using the texts as eyeshades.

English transcription: Pupils leaving school.
French transcription: Sortie d'école.
Description: Some 15 children of various ages - among them three girls, two only partly visible - are walking away from a low thatched school building. They are carrying a variety of books and school bags.

English transcription: Primary school pupils.
French transcription: Elèves d'une école primaire.
Description: Two young girsl seated side by side at a table. One reads a schoolbook ("Méthode Boscher, La journée des tout petits") and the other holds her head and watches.

English transcription: A primary school pupil.
French transcription: Un petit élève de l'école primaire.
Description: A young girl is seated at a schooldesk - featuring a much-used inkwell with stains around it - writing with a feather pen in an exercise book. A class is in progress, as parts of two other seated students - one also writing - can be seen.

English transcription: UNESCO has sent an expert in education to assist the Government of Mali in its education progamme. Here, a lesson in the Mamadou Konaté primary school.
French transcription: En vue d'assister le gouvernement du Mali dans son programme d'enseignement, l'UNESCO a envoyé sur place un expert-conseiller en la matière. Ici, une leçon de lecture à l'école primaire Mamadou Konaté.
Description: Three pupils, two girls and a boy, are seated at a desk in a classroom. They are reading from textbooks on the desk. A female teacher is standing behind them, looking down at their work.

English transcription: Primary schools.
French transcription: Ecoles primaires.
Description: Six smiling girls and boys are seated at desks in a classroom. Three of them are holding up their textbooks to show the photographer. A textbook in the foreground is in Portuguese, as is the class notebook on the desk in the front row.

English transcription: Joos primary school.
French transcription: Ecole primaire de Joos.
Description: The inside of a classroom with nine seated children (three boys and a girl in the back row, and the rest in the front row). The two girls in the front of the picture are smiling joyfully at the photographer.

English transcription: A primary school pupil.
French transcription: Un élève d'une école primaire.
Description: During a lesson in a classroom, a young boy, standing, is writing with chalk on a small handheld chalkboard.

French transcription: Education primaire.
Description: In a classroom, with their backs to the camera, a woman teacher and a young girl are absorbed in a writing exercise on a long horizontal blackboard.

Description: An adult helping a child draw a picture in a classroom setting.

Description: Dans une salle de classe, un petit garçon est en train de recopier le contenu d'un livre sur une feuille. Derrière lui, l'enseignant est au tableau et fait face à deux grandes tables d'élèves, tous des garçons.

English transcription: A small pupil during a class at the Koonpo Primary School which is attended by 1430 children.
French transcription: Petit élève pendant un cours à l'école primaire de Koonpo qui compte 1430 enfants.
Description: Portrait d'une petite fille en train d'écrire sur une feuille au crayon à papier. Elle a un cahier sous le coude. Elle porte une chemise et un vêtement à bretelles. Elle n’a pas l’air contente.

English transcription: A classroom scene in the primary school in the Gandaria district of Dacca.
French transcription: Une classe à l'école primaire du quartier de Gandaria.
Description: Dans une salle de classe, des garçons alignés sur des tables sont en train d'écrire. Ceux du premier rang ont de nombreux cahiers et feuilles sur leur table. Derrière, une étagère avec des livres.

English transcription: Small pupils during a class at the Koonpo Primary School which is attended by 1430 children.
French transcription: Petits élèves pendant un cours à l'école primaire de Koonpo qui compte 1430 enfants.
Description: The interior of a classrom, with some 15 visible or partially visible girls seated at wooden desks, but for one girl, who is standing and reading aloud from a textbook. The other girls are following in their own textbooks. Four illustrated, Korean-language posters are hung on the wall in the background.

English transcription: Small pupils during a class at the Koonpo Primary School which is attended by 1430 pupils.
French transcription: Petits élèves pendant un cours à l'école primaire de Koonpo qui compte 1430 enfants.
Description: The interior of a classrooom, with boys seated at long wooden desks, facing in all directions. Open reading materials are in front of each pupil, being studied by some, while others are raising their hands to be called upon by a teacher. Up front, one boy - hand held high - is holding a pencil in his mouth.

English transcription: A small pupil during a class at the Koonpo Primary School which is attended by 1,430 children.
French transcription: Une petite élève pendant un cours à l'école primaire de Koonpo qui compte 1,430 enfants.
Description: A young student wearing a sweater stands in front of a blackboard, on which are written three long-division exercises. The student is pointing with a stick at an exercise, and, apparently, explaning the mathematical process in which he or she is engaged.

English transcription: Small pupils at the International School.
French transcription: Des petits élèves à l'école internationale de Durgapur.
Description: Two young girls are seated at a small desk with a large picture book open in front of them. They are looking intently at the book.