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"
Staat und Kino, Der Kinematograph, 514, (1916), S. 11-12. Erörterung der Idee, der Staat könne die Filmproduktion in seine Hände nehmen. Als Beispiel wird die Eisenbahn genommen, die auch zunächst...
Ludwig Brauner, Die kommende Geschmackswandlung, Der Kinematograph, 593, (1918), S. 15-16. Erörterung des Publikumsgeschmacks. Gegenwärtig sei vor allem Ablenkung vom Kriegsalltag gefragt, jedoch li...
"'Um das grosse Erbe'. Aufhebung eines Filmverbots", Der Kinematograph, 549, (1917), S. 11-14.
Universum Filmverleih, Söhne des Volkes, Der Kinematograph, 620, (1918), S. 3. "Der bisher unter dem Titel 'König des Lichts' angekündigte Film...der neue Film für die neue Zeit"
Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 550, (1917), S. 15-17. Rezension aktueller Filme. Interessant ist, dass die russische Gesellschaft filmisch thematisiert wird. Karl Schneider,...
Arthur Loening, Ein Friedensfilm, Lichtbildbühne, 50, (1918), S. 40 & 56. Der Film greife die aktuelle Sehnsucht nach Frieden auf. Wie aber der Westfälische Frieden einen Machtzuwachs für Frankreic...
Deutsche Lichtbild Gesellschaft e.V., Der Friedensreiter, Der Kinematograph, 618, (1918), S.22-23.
Der deutsche Film für das Ausland, Der Kinematograph, 620, (1918). Es sei Aufgabe der deutschen Filmindustrie, den negativen Vorstellungen über Deutschland, die im Ausland im Krieg verbreitet worden...