The film shows the activities of a machine gun battalion: field exercises on horseback, combat, machine gun cleaning, horse riding and equestrian gymnastics, fencing, harnessing the wild mules.
The garrison units of Lisbon perform military exercises near the Jamor river, attended by the Minister of War, and in which artillery and “heavy” machine guns take part.
Documentary film on the daily life in the Military School: classes, sports (swedish gymnastics, leaps, pole vaulting), artillerty exercises, a parade featuring the school’s band.
Incomplet. Views of bathers and beaches of Parede, Tamariz, Conceição and Ribeiro in Cascais. Streets, hotels and chalets of Estoril. Shows, sports and leisure. Fishermen patching the fishing nets.
Non-fiction film on the key-players of the military coup of 28th May 1926, which brought the First Republic (1910-1926) to an end.
Images of the funeral ceremonies of the poet Guerra Junqueiro, gathering a huge crowd who followed the procession from Basílica da Estrela to the Jeronimos Monastery.
Documentary film on the education establishment, its facilities (edifice built in 1914 which now hosts the headquarters of the Guarda Nacional Republicana) and activites.
Images of a gala bullfight, on foot and on horseback, in an unidentified site.
A page of Ernesto de Albuquerque's photo album.
portrait
Portrait of the film director.
film frame
Portrait.
Film frame of the film 'Panoramas do Porto' ('Panoramas of Oporto', c. 1900).
Portrait.
Film frame of Arthur Costa de Macedo's 'Homenagens aos soldados desconhecidos' ('Tribute to Unknown Soldiers'), 1921.
Short note on the inexistance of Portuguese legislation on film industry.
A foretaste of Portuguese cinema's success in the year of 1930.
Notes on the educational potential of film.
On the potentials of sound film for the recording of Portugal’s oral traditions.
A protest on the fragmentation of a film about Angola as a way for exhibitors to enforcing the law.
Notes on a group of documentary films and on documentary cinema in general.
Notes on the difficulties of documentary film production.