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...
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 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...
The Danish film journal FILMEN was published in the period 1912-1919 (24 issues per year). First published under the name "A/S Kinografen", then from 1913 under the name "Association of Cinema Theatre...