Incomplet. A huge crowd attends a bullfight in a Doze Ribeiras parish square, located in the Angra do Heroísmo municipality in the Terceira Island, Azores. Some people defy the bull.
The film depicts the 3-day excursion of a group of workers of the newspaper “Diário de Notícias” to the aforesaid sites.
Images of several sports practised in Figueira da Foz: tennis, skating, barrels race, string game, auto and horse riding. Boa Viagem Mountain, “Vela” and the Cedar Woods.
Touristic sites of Figueira da Foz: streets, Casino, Hotel, City Hall, monuments, Palace Alorna and references to nearby towns.
Description of the extension work on the routes undertaken by the Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro do Norte de Portugal (“Rail Company of the North of Portugal”).
The film shows a farmstead owned by Silveira Leitão where several animals are raised (pigs, sheep, lambs, oxen, horses, bulls and cows) among the pasture and turnip cultivation.
A patriotic rally in support of the Government attended by students of schools and universities from Lisbon, Oporto and Coimbra.
Non-fiction film on the aforesaid locations, in the region of Serra da Estrela ("Star Mountain Range", the highest mountain range in Continental Portugal).
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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.