A short film about the painter Gino Rossi: his life, art, struggle against the academies, conformity and middle class duplicity. His dissent is unyielding, his life complete freedom, but he ends...
The life of the parish priest don Giovanni Minzoni is reconstructed from adolescence to adulthood, from pastoral mission to extreme sacrifice. The film visits the places of his youth in his home...
The historical events connected to Garibaldi and the Expedition of the Thousand.
The life and work of the great actor Ettore Petrolini.
The film has no plot or continuity. Almost all the first reel comes directly from IWM 236 A BOMBING TRIP OVER THE ENEMY LINES, showing Australian aircraft, and IWM 28 WITH THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES IN PAL...
Emperor Wilhelm II visited Norway and the city of Kristiansund around 1913, and the film shows the arrival of a huge German warship. Life in the harbour and on the fjord, people at work on a farm, ...
(Reel 1) The full map shows Europe from Dover east to Frankfurt, and Antwerp south to Orléans. In various stages the map shows the five main phase lines of the war: the furthest German advance of 191...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
In January 1916 there was a great fire in Bergen, where almost 400 buildings burned down and 2700 people lost their homes. The film shows the clean-up of the ruins.
Newsreel in three parts: a football match with female players, the autumn fashion from Paris, and the favourite sport of cowboys, which seems to be gymnastics.
From the celebration of the Norwegian national day, the 17th of May, in the capital Kristiania, later named Oslo. The day is celebrated traditionally with choral singing, brass bands and children's ...
Giuseppe Garibaldi was in America when he met and married Anita Ribeira. In 1848 Garibaldi decided to go back to Italy where war was imminent, and Anita followed him. In the fighting at Vascello...
Comedy about soldier Tontolini who keeps his money in the sheath of his sword. When he wants to pay, and therefore pulls his sword, the police is called. Subsequently the misunderstanding is cleared u...
Drama in which Hélène, the owner of a large company, looses her memory and is taken in a working class family. She starts to work in her own factory, to find out that her employees are working under...
Young Alexander Snobman is the son of the town's richest sausage maker, and the neighbour of Philip Helt, an up-and-coming engineer. Both of the young gentlemen are captivated by the dancer Eva Sommer...
The film is constructed on a contemporary requirement tied to the wartime situation, seeing as Italy had gone to war with Austria in May 1915. At the end of the wedding ceremony the procession o...
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 ...
The film shows a gathering in the city of Lillehammer in Norway by farmers from Gudbrandsdalen. We also visit several places in Gudbrandsdalen before returning to the farmers' association's gathering ...
I. Newsreel item on a long mule train, with Indian Army drivers, in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.II. Brief newsreel item on a long line of limbers and GS wagons making their way forward down a ...
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...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...