On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
The film shows images from Rjukan and the surrounding area. We see narrow roads and sharp curves, the famous waterfall and the power plant, construction and industry, mountain dairy farming and reinde...
Between 28-30 December 1917, Padua suffered three air raids by Austrian aircraft. After the first, The Times of London reported:"December 29. : Yesterday evening at 9 p.m. enemy airmen, true to their...
Spanish writers and personalities devoted to their hobbies: reading, walking, painting or visiting a museum.
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
Young hairdresser Elisabeth Borg wins the lottery and treats herself to an Easter holiday at a mountain resort. Here she is subjected to the advances of a sly deadbeat, but is rescued by-and becomes e...
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.
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 ...
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.
Daily production report No. 2, 24 June 1959 on the shooting of "Melodie und Rhythmus".