Ein Mann will Fensterrahmen putzen, schiebt dafür das Bügelbrett aufs Fensterbrett und steigt hinaus. Er balanciert draußen, während seine Frau von innen das Bügelbrett festhält und ihm die Ata-...
Der US-Amerikaner Louis Sarno entwickelte als junger Mann eine so große Faszination für die polyphonen Gesänge der Bayaka-Pygmäen, dass er in den zentralafrikanischen Regenwald auswanderte und sic...
Der Titel des Dokudramas bezieht sich nicht auf den Boxerfilm mit Sylvester Stallone, sondern auf ein Kunstwerk des renommierten amerikanischen Künstlers Edward Ruscha: Im Jahr 1976 soll Ruscha einen...
Mitte der 70er Jahre leisten junge Männer ihren Wehrdienst auf einem französischen Marineschiff im Pazifik ab. Dabei werden sie Zeugen der unter Wasser stattfindenden Atomtests – Bilder, die sie n...
Ida lebt mit ihrer fünfköpfigen, internationalen Besatzung auf einem Segelschiff, das ihr gehört. Bei einem Stopp in Marseille treffen sie auf Mitglieder der französischen Fremdenlegion, welche in...
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.
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...
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 ...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
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...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
i. AMERICAN MISSION IN LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. DR PAGE WITH DELEGATES WHO WILL TELL U.S. OF OUR WAR WORK. U.S. Ambassador W.H. Page and his group embark from ship in Liverpool. They talk with women work...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.