Un maestro in classe mostra un mappamondo ai suoi alunni, introducendo una carrellata di eventi che, dai tempi dell'antica Grecia in poi, hanno portato all'unità dell'Europa. Le origini del con...
Giacomo Arnaldi è il sensale dell'usuraio Isacco duro ed impassibile. Egli nutre per la figlia Giulietta una vera adorazione. Il destino vuole che la ragazza s'innamori d'un cliente di suo padr...
<p>Unidentified film, probably three different reportage films, with Danish intertitles:<br>The attack at Monticello.<br>A pigeon transports a message.<br>Alpine soldiers issue...
Documentario sul pittore Gino Rossi (Venezia, 1884 - Treviso, 1947): la sua arte, la lotta contro accademie e conformismi borghesi, gli ultimi anni passati in manicomio. Nel cortile del manicomi...
Biografia di Don Giovanni Minzoni, immersa nel clima sociale degli anni in cui visse. Il testo di commento riprende alcuni passi tratti dai suoi taccuini. Ravenna, la città in cui nacque e tras...
Con illustrazioni d'epoca e riprese sui luoghi degli avvenimenti, il film ricostruisce la spedizione dei Mille ripercorrendo i principali episodi della vittoriosa marcia di Garibaldi nel Sud: l'...
La vita e l'opera del grande attore Ettore Petrolini. Veduta di Roma , in sottofondo la canzone “Tanto pe’ cantà”: Piazza Farnese, via dei Cappellari: una vecchia lavora a maglia sull’u...
Based on an English fairy tale in which poverty forces Jack to sell their cow, but in exchange gets beans instead of money. Eventually he uses the magic beans to wind up in the castle of the giant.
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.
Immagini documentarie sul fronte della prima guerra mondiale: l'esercito italiano tra il Brenta e l'Adige; veduta del monte Pasubio e del Monte Cimone; si trasportano truppe e cannoni; in marcia...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
The film gives a vivid and lively picture of landscape, buildings, industry and everyday life in the small city of Sandefjord in the southern parts of Norway.
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
French language version of a newsreel item on British troops sitting and eating bread and jam "with proverbial coolness", Western Front, May 1918.
"King And President - The King of the Belgians and President Poincaré leaving Furnes after an inspection of the French Cavalry in the market square".