The stage-like set is the interior of an eighteenth century drawing room (note the placard "Lumière" on the right). A wizard mixes and pours powders into a bowl on a pedestal. This changes into a hun...
This film shows the construction of a big concrete dam in as part of a water power plant in Tunhovd and Nore in Norway.
The film shows the launching of a ship made of armoured concrete at Porsgrunds cementstøperi AS. The ship is launced with the keel turning upwards and turned when it is sea-borne. This event attracts...
Crime drama in which Minnie is haunted by her past. She flees from Jim to escape from his bad influence. During a burglary Jim shoots a man and insists on Minnie to help him get away from there. Minni...
Social drama in which Mario takes the blame for the fraud of his future father-in-law. Because of his good behaviour he is released sooner from the house of correction (Eric County). Subsequently he t...
Reportage about the festivities to mark the inauguration of Mayor M. van Hout in Helmond, on July 29, 1913 This film opens with the arrival of Mayor Van Hout at the station in Helmond, where he makes ...
A comedy about deceiving and being deceived. Lena, a dancer, sets off for a a fashionable bathing resort after winning a large sum of money. There she meets the penniless painter Gustaaf. Both of them...
Non-identified fragment of a documentary about Italian naval operations, showing a battleship, navy officers on the deck, a submarine charging torpedoes and a seaplane landing on the sea. It has no ti...
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.
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 ...
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
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...
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...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
Russian melodrama about the heroic deeds of a woman during the First World War.