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...
Hammering nails into flagpole of Czech legion and ceremonial blessing of the flag (28th September 1914) in Kiev.
Ceremonial blessing of the flag (28th September 1914) of Czech legion in Kiev.
Mobilization in Great Britain. Ceremonial march of British military band in traditional fur hats.
Mobilization in Germany: Train with military equipment rides on front.
Czechoslovak volunteers are welcome in Chicago expants living in the USA.
A general view of the events in front of the snow-covered railway station in Irkutsk.
Smoking soldier at the door wagon with the inscription "Gunsmith wokshop, 3rd Regiment."
Technical troops maintained in good repair railway tracks - covering the underside of rails.
Egon Jacobsohn, Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 633, (1919), S. 49-50. "Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadschas" wird als sentimentaler Kitsch abgetan. "Irrungen" handle vom Kampf...
Luxor, Sylva: "Kino, Monarchie und „Vorwärts“" Der Kinematograph 389 (1914). Entgegnungen auf die Vorwürfe der sozialdemokratischen Presse, dass das Kino die Herrschaftsinteressen der Monarchie ...
Häfker, Hermann. "Der Weg zur Kinodramatik." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 1 (1913/ 1914). H.H. erklärt den Film zu einer anderen Künsten gegenüber gleichran...
Tannenbaum, Herbert. "Probleme des Kinodramas." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 60-63. Tannenbaum erörtert die Möglichkeiten des Films und probl...
Blaschitz, Hilda. "Zum Richard-Wagner-Film." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III,2 (1913/1914): 45-46. Blaschitz freut sich darüber, dass der Film "Richard Wagner" in ...