Das Tonbild zeigt die Arie "La donna è mobile" (deutsch: "Ach, wie so trügerisch") aus dem dritten Akt von Guiseppe Verdis Oper "Rigoletto". Tonbild ist eine Bezeichnung für frühe Kinofilme mit Sy...
Einer uralten Tradition folgend, muss der 13-jährige Finne Oskari eine Nacht alleine in der Wildnis der finnischen Berge verbringen und dabei mit seinem Bogen ein Tier erlegen. Als jedoch das Flugzeu...
Onkel Boonmee kehrt nach einem akuten Nierenversagen zurück aufs Land und in den Kreis seiner Familie, um dort die Zeit zu verbringen, die ihm noch bleibt. Seine Schwester, ein junger Verwandter und ...
Es läuft nicht gut für den armen Rodolfo: In seiner Wohnung fühlt er sich so unwohl und so wenig zuhause, dass nicht einmal mehr seine Freundin ihn dort besucht; und seine Freunde von der Fußballm...
In mehreren miteinander verwobenen Episoden erzählt die Komödie von den Irrungen, Wirrungen und Absurditäten der Liebe. Was darüber hinaus sämtliche Geschichten eint, sind die Darsteller: Katja R...
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...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Close-up of a sergeant holding a football marked 2Y&L. Pan over the men of the battalion, lying, sitting or standing informally, with two Lewis machine guns in the front row. Two lance-corporals sitti...
We follow the ship Braganza from the harbour of Tromsø to the Svalbard archipelago. The Svalbard Treaty or the Spitsbergen Treaty from 1920 recognises the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archip...
An interesting review of the Savoy Cavalry at practice and drill is herein presented. They are seen descending high embankments and fording streams and ends with field drill. The film is somewha...
The little Agenore (Ferdinande Guillaume) combines a lot of trouble to family friend Ilario Mentecatti (Natale Guillaume).
The city of Seville and its surroundings in 1914: the cathedral, the Guadalquivir river, the bullring...etc.
The celebration of Labour Day at the industrial areas Tofte and Sagene by the Oslo Fjord.