Newsreel item showing British soldiers eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness," Western Front, May 1918.
"The Retreat From Ghent - Belgian cavalry and artillery falling back on Bruges".
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
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.
From private wedding festivities at a wooden villa in the city of Fredikstad.
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...
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...
In November 1917 there was a meeting in Kristiania (Oslo) with the three Scandinavian kings: Sweden's King Gustav, Denmark's King Christian, and Norway's King Haakon. The film shows the arrival of th...
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...
Film documenting a tortuous series of cavalry exercises. It includes a harrowing sequence of horses descending steep hills and cliffs and jumping into the water. Film restored in collaboration w...
From the celebration of the Norwegian national day, the 17th of May, in the capital Kristiania, later named Oslo. The day is celebrated traditionally with choral singing, brass bands and children's ...
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 ...
Images of Fiume (today Rijeka, Croatia) during the celebration of the city’s transfer to Italy at the end of the First World War. It begins with views of the city from the sea and of the port ...
Ambitious spanish-french co-production (costed one million pesetas in those years) based on the life of Christopher Columbus.
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
In preparion for war, German and French ships and hydroplanes are launched in Wilhelmshaven and Lorient. The war technology is depicted in an objective and proud manner, which today seems in stark con...
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...