Dokumentarfilm über Leben und Werk der Künstlerin Hanne Darboven. Sie wurde 1941 als Tochter der bekannten Hamburger Kaufmannsfamilie Darboven (u.a. J.W. Darboven Kaffee) geboren und studierte an de...
Seit den 1910er Jahren hat Oskar Barnack, der Erfinder der Leica, mit seiner selbstkonstruierten Filmkamera Geschehnisse rund um Wetzlar im Bild festgehalten. Er dokumentierte Flutkatastrophen, Stadtf...
Tonbild zum Duett "Das süße Mädel" (auch "So g'wachsen wie a Bamerl") aus dem Ersten Akt von Heinrich Reinhardts erster Operette "Das süße Mädel". Bei ihrer Uraufführung 1901 war die Operette e...
Die Brüder Gabriel und Elias könnten unterschiedlicher kaum sein: während Gabriel als Uni-Professor ein grundsolides Leben führt, denkt der Tagedieb Elias nur an sein Vergnügen und an Frauen. Dan...
Der alte Bauer Pettersson ist genervt, weil sein Kater Findus ununterbrochen auf seiner neuen Matratze herumspringt. Um endlich wieder Ruhe zu haben, baut er dem Kater ein eigenes kleines Haus, nur zu...
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...
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.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
Animation film by Dusan Vukotic, one of the major Croatian animators and co-founder of Zagreb Film. A charming story about an old magician and all sorts of magic creatures that end up in the world of ...
Ralph and Edith Norton, two Protestant missionaries from Philadelphia, came to Britain for a period of three years to provide assistance to refugees and wounded Belgian soldiers from the war zone. Mon...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.