As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
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.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
Newsreel showing the breakdown of the relation between USA and Germany in 1917, in addition to pictures from the American Navy, female train conductors and polar bears in a Paris zoo.
Short war film. Being imprisoned, chained and shaven half bold, dragged through the snow. A man stayes behind and is saved by passengers. Yet later on, when he is recognised, he is shot down.
Emperor Wilhelm II visited Norway and the city of Kristiansund around 1913, and the film shows the arrival of a huge German warship. Life in the harbour and on the fjord, people at work on a farm, ...
1. Akt 1. Zwischentitel: Die Ernte. Die Flachsstengel werden nicht geschnitten, sondern gerauft. Bild: Russische Kriegsgefangene raufen Flachsstengel unter der Aufsicht eines deutschen Soldaten; Kinde...
Georges Lordier would direct more than 300 songs on film. Here about a soldier, falling in love with a girl. He flirts with her and later, on his room, he dreams about her while writing a letter.
Hollandia Film-fragments of the films OORLOG EN VREDE 1914 (Maurits H. Binger, 1918) and BLOEDGELD (Fred Goodwins, 1921).
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...
On board of a German battleship.
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
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 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...
Spanish writers and personalities devoted to their hobbies: reading, walking, painting or visiting a museum.
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
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 ...