Documentary dedicated to the artillery assigned to the Italian troops in Africa, shot by Luca Comerio in 1912, while the war in Libya was underway. The video is a copy from the film print preserved in...
Luca Comerio is perhaps the greatest documentary filmmaker in Italian silent cinema. War films have an important place within his immense production, in particular the ones dedicated to the Italo-Turk...
Clay pits were operative near Cefalù in the 1910s. This brief documentary shows us the different stages of the manufacturing process: from the hard job of extracting and transporting it to the artisa...
The golden hollow is the site where the city of Palermo rises, with its most famed beauties are shown to us thanks to static takes, slow tracking and “split screen” shots inspired by picturesque p...
A documentary set in Italian-speaking Switzerland, whose beauties are revealed through “phantom rides” on the Brunate Cremagliera railway, through sunsets in backlight on Lake Como and footage of ...
Documentary dedicated to the submarines assigned to the Italian Military Navy, shot by Luca Comerio in 1912, while the war in Libya was underway. The drills shown take place near the port of Taranto. ...
The panoramic shot opening the film pinponts the true protagonists at once: the canals, water harnessed within circuits planned by man in order to wrench land from the sea. The camera travels at water...
Episode of the series produced by Comerio dedicated to the Italo-Turk war. It features the departure of Lt. Paolo Solaroli’s body from Africa to Italy. The video is a copy from the film print preser...
Still from "Was Liebe vermag"
Still from "Christa Hartungen"
Gustav Fröhlich, Lars Hanson (from left to right)
Still from "Die Topharmumie"
Luis Trenker
Lyda Salmonova
Screenshot from "Die Lokomobil-Fabrik R. Wolf Magdeburg-Buckau"
Szene aus "Der rote Baron"
C.Z.K.. „Presseschau.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 89-90. Der Autor zitiert mehrere Pressestimmen, die den kulturellen Wert des Films herv...
News of the exhibition in Lisbon of a group of “war films” in a tribute to the allied nations.
FILMEN is the most important Danish film industry magazine from the early silent film period. The journal was published in the period 1912-1919 (with 24 issues per year).
Lynx. „Kritik.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 80-84. Erläutert die Absicht, künftig in der Zeitschrift Filmkritiken zu veröffentlichen so...
Rennert, Malwine. "Kino und Bühne. Von Willi Rath." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,2 (1913/1914): 46-47. Rennert lobt die neu erschienene Broschüre, stellt aber ...
Thielemann, Walter: „Kinematographie und Alkoholbekämpfung.“ Der Kinematograph, 391 (1914). Bericht darüber, dass das Kino dem Alkoholismus entgegenwirke.
O. Verf.. „Kinokommission des Westfälischen Landgemeindetages.“ Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 5 (1913/1914): 108-111. Bericht über die Arbeit der Kinokommi...
Wie steht das Volk zum Kino ?, Das Lichtbildtheater, 6.Jg, Nr.5, (1914). Bericht über die erste soziologische Untersuchung des Kinowesens durch Emilie Altenloth. Ihrem Ergebniss, dass maßgeblich Men...