Two events in the city of Kristiansand around 1918: A rich Norwegian emigrant returns from America, and a memorial for sailors killed in World War I is unveiled.
A patriotic film tinged with humor and sentimentalism. Stock footage (the crowded town, the departure of warships) and reconstructed war scenes in the desert are part of the second half about th...
Špilberk is a picturesque castle dominating the modern city of Brno (Czech Republic). Over the course of time it has been a fortress, prison, museum and a place for torture. During the Inquisit...
The documentary reconstructs World War I through the letters of fighting soldiers. Both the situations in Italy and in other warring nations are taken into consideration.
Film naar het gelijknamige boek van Bosboom-Toussaint over een meisje van adel dat vanwege de erfenis als jongen - Majoor Frans - wordt opgevoed. Als volwassen vrouw heeft zij moeite met het vinden va...
Baldevin and Simen become friends while at sea, only to go their separate ways. Many years later, Simen is married to a wealthy widow. When Baldevin arrives in town, Simen seeks to ensure his friend's...
The film reviews the history and art of Vienna and the empire of which it was the capital for centuries, ending with a vision of the contemporary city.
The documentary makes use of different testimonies of Art Nouveau, from a brief, initial summary of the artistic movement, to an interview with a person (Sergio Tofano) who lived during that era...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
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 ...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Rennert, Malwine. "Kleopatra, Herrin des Nils; Die letzten Tage von Byzanz." Bild & Film. Zeitschrift für Lichtbilderei und Kinematographie III, 3/4 (1913/1914): 65-68. Rennert lobt „Kleopatra“ f...
Filzinger, Wolfgang: "Filmaufnahmen im Schützengraben". Veröffentlichungsort und -zeitpunkt des Artikels ist unklar.
The main street is crowded with people. The battalion band leads the men down through the crowd. The camera, in the front row of the crowd, shows one rank after another in a sustained shot as they par...
Report on the returning of the King and Queen of Belgium on 22 November 1918.
Opnamen van keizer Wilhelm II aan zijn dagelijkse bezigheden.
Non identified compilation, probably incomplete, datable from 1926, which collects different segments of celebrations of the Italian victory. Some images are taken from documentaries produced by the R...
Melodrama over het wel en wee van drie families tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Propaganda film describing the efficiency of the British naval airplanes and the training of cadets.