Various news items about the First World War, compiled for home projection. Optimism and emphasis on international collaboration, remains preserved and the more gruesome or embarrassing war images wer...
Romantic film in which a couple who have been together for fifty years reminisce about the time they first met. Jack Stevens informs the couple Philippe and Maud Perkins, who are celebrating their f...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
The film shows a gathering in the city of Lillehammer in Norway by farmers from Gudbrandsdalen. We also visit several places in Gudbrandsdalen before returning to the farmers' association's gathering ...
I. Newsreel item on a long mule train, with Indian Army drivers, in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.II. Brief newsreel item on a long line of limbers and GS wagons making their way forward down a ...
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
Comedy about soldier Tontolini who keeps his money in the sheath of his sword. When he wants to pay, and therefore pulls his sword, the police is called. Subsequently the misunderstanding is cleared u...
Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company, looses her memory and is taken in a working class family. She starts to work in her own factory, to find out that her employees are working under...
Young Alexander Snobman is the son of the town's richest sausage maker, and the neighbour of Philip Helt, an up-and-coming engineer. Both of the young gentlemen are captivated by the dancer Eva Sommer...
The film is constructed on a contemporary requirement tied to the wartime situation, seeing as Italy had gone to war with Austria in May 1915. At the end of the wedding ceremony the procession o...
A British film recording the visit of King George V, accompanied by his son Prince Albert (later George VI), on a tour inspection of several British battleships in an unnamed location (possibly ...
The film shows a journey in Troms in Northern Norway, from Sjøvegan by the sea to waterfall and salmon ladder in Malangen.
Fridtjof Nansen was the leader of The League of Nations' repatriation work for prisoners of war after World War I. This film shows a LN meeting in Geneva, probably in 1920, and soldiers on their way ...
The film is part of the election campaign for The Norwegian Labour Party in 1930 and argues against the militarism of the Conservative Party. Scenes from World War I illustrates the horrors of the war...