Documentary film on the colonial exhibition held in 1934 in Oporto. Images of the participants, pavilions, gardens, leisure areas, folk parades and of the most visited commercial stands.
Portuguese Youth parade in the celebrations of the 1st December (Independence Restoration Day).
Activities of Mocidade Portuguesa (“Portuguese Youth”): camping, sports demonstrations, marches, parade at Av. da Liberdade (Lisbon, 1938), meeting at the Jockey Club (1939).
Incomplet. The School of Cavalry and the field instruction: slope and entering the water in a horse exercises. As some slopes are almost vertical, fallings are inevitable.
The first public appearance of the organization.
Unedited footage. Images of the official opening of the building, located in Av. Da Liberdade, Lisbon, with the presence of the President of the Republic. Shots of the car exhibition.
The textile industry in Areosa, Oporto. Firemen exercises. A visit by the Indigenous Company of Mozambique (Landins of Mozambique).
Parade of the Mocidade Portuguesa (“Portuguese Youth”) and outdoor mass in the Jockey Club’s field, 1938.
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Portrait of the film director
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Portuguese film operator, Manuel Maria da Costa Veiga, remembers the first years of film exhibition in Portugal.
Weekly publication of cinematographic art.
Notes on the cinematographic work of Aníbal Contreiras and César de Sá.
Commentary on the scientific films’ enormous interest, namely those using chronophotography.
Notes on film’s potential in depicting reality with emphasis on some reels on WWI.
Commentary on the historical value of newsreels in terms of search and reconstructing of events.
Notes on the documentary films depicting submarine life, referring some technologies used.
Report on the departure of Augusto Claro to Africa and the reasons behind this departure.