Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
Drama in which two kidnapped persons, employees of a diamond cutting establishment, chase their kidnappers, a mine owner and his lover.
International newsreel with ten different elements, among them a fashion show in Paris, followed by different shows and demonstrations of airship, planes, motorcycles, cars, tractors and other farm ma...
Melodrama in which the rich and arrogant George promises to give money to the penniless Frank and Jane, on the condition that he could spend the night with Jane. She agrees with this, hoping to save h...
The American Committee's health department brings the medical authorities' and parliamentary circles' attention to the state of children's public health in the disaster-stricken Aisne region. Seventee...
Based on an English fairy tale in which poverty forces Jack to sell their cow, but in exchange gets beans instead of money. Eventually he uses the magic beans to wind up in the castle of the giant.
A documentary film on recent Norwegian history (1905-1955). Spanning from the break with Sweden and arrival of the new king Haakon VII, to the promise of things to come through such new fields as spac...
The farmer's daughter and her young man spend idyllic moments in the countryside, riding in a buggy and then rowing on the lake. The girl plucks a daisy: "He loves me, he loves me not..." but of cours...
A woman, concerned about the continual absences of her husband, commissions a detective to follow him and report back to her. At first glance this appears to be a classic fictional device, all the mor...
01 - Estero Rotative di giornali e titoli sugli avvenimenti che stanno sconvolgendo l’Europa dell’est: in Polonia la rivolta degli studenti contro il regime, in Cecoslovacchia le dimissioni ...
Spanish writers and personalities devoted to their hobbies: reading, walking, painting or visiting a museum.
Between 28-30 December 1917, Padua suffered three air raids by Austrian aircraft. After the first, The Times of London reported:"December 29. : Yesterday evening at 9 p.m. enemy airmen, true to their...
The workforce is mainly women working at benches or on production lines. They test rubber mouthpieces for leaks with a probe. They test the expiratory valves in the same manner. The corrugated tubes a...
The curtain goes up on the cartoon to introduce the two characters. They set out on patrol from a police station. The dog sees a cat and chases it over rough ground and through a sewer pipe. The handl...
Ambitious spanish-french co-production (costed one million pesetas in those years) based on the life of Christopher Columbus.
Spendid shots of the famous waterfalls filmed on the Canadian side and distributed at the time by the Belgian Cingraphique University, founded in 1926 and specialised in the distribution of documentar...
News of the exhibition in Lisbon of a group of “war films” in a tribute to the allied nations.