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...
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) lying in a bed with a bandage on her left elbow. Nurse Tonička (actress: Truda Grosslichtová) is standing on the left with her hand resting o...
Medium shot of Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) standing next to a night stand in a hospital room. In the background is a window with a panoramic view of Brno.
Wide shot of an empty city street with three-storeyed buildings on the right and urban greenery on the left.
Medium shot of Nurse Mathilde (actress: Adina Mandlová) standing in a half opened door with her hand on the door handle.
Three families on the villiage green after the mobilization. From the left Mrs. Bártová and her son, Bárta (laborer), Janda (smith) and Tomeš (farmer) pledge a loyalty to the idea of Slavonic unit...
Three families on the public green after mobilization. From the left: Mrs. Bártová, Bárta and his son, Janda and his family, Tomeš and his family. Travel packages in the foreground.
After the mobilization: women hold on men and cry. On the left Janda (smith), the second one is Tomeš (farmer).
Farmer Tomeš and his son Jeníček with the oxcart full of straw.
Kurbelmann im Kriegsdienst, Der Kinematograph, 436, (1915), S. 21-24. Aus der Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung zitierter Bericht über die Erlebnisse eines Kriegsfilmers.
Häfker, Hermann. "Sind die 'kleinen' Kinotheater der Reform schädlich?" Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 58-60. Häfker geht davon aus, dass die ...
Nordisk Films GmbH, Jede Woche neue Kriegs-Aufnahmen, Der Kinematograph 406, (1914), S. 3. "Jede Woche abwechselnd neue Kriegsaufnahmen vom Westen und Osten (eigene Expeditionen)".
E. Osten, Kinematographie des Krieges, Erste Internationale Filmzeitung, 9.Jg., Nr.21, (1915), S. 16-18. Bericht über den Einsatz aus dem Flugzeug aufgenommener Filme zur Aufklärung feindlicher Stel...
Eiko Film. „"Eiko-Woche“ ist die beste Kriegsberichterstattung" Der Kinematograph 404 (1914): 1.
Rundschau, Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie, IV,1, (1914/1915), S. 34-41. Berichte über Firmen, die mit Pathé Frères in Verbindung stünden und deshalb boykottiert we...