Die junge Paula hatte den Traum von der Schauspielkarriere schon fast aufgegeben, da bekommt sie die Möglichkeit, für eine wichtige Rolle in einem Blues-Musical vorzusprechen. Bei dem Casting lernt ...
"The Expert at the Card Table" lautet der Titel eines berühmten Kartenzauberbuchs aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, das zahlreiche professionelle Kartenspieler und Magier bis heute als Quelle ihrer eigenen Tr...
Dokumentarfilm über Menschen, die sich im Namen der Schönheit operativ behandeln ließen oder aber selbst plastische Operationen durchführen. Ohne eine wertende Perspektive einzunehmen geht die Fil...
Comedy in so-called "Reality"-fashion: Lead actor Christian Ulmen slips into the role of 18-year old pupil Jonas, who has failed his classes several times. The allegedly hopeless case gets a last chan...
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...
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...
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, ...
Reportage about a demonstration flight by aviator Clement van Maasdijk On July 31 and August 1, 1910, the Dutch aviator Clement van Maasdijk gave two flight demonstrations during Heerenveen’s ‘air...
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...
Suzanne and the prince of Sylvania fall in love with each other, but this is forbidden. Suzanne is thrown out of the house, gives birth to an illegitimate child, goes mad and dies before she can see h...
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.
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...
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.