Viaggio a Napoli. Trio cantante con accompagnamento di chitarra e violino. Spaghetti e mandolino. Vedute panoramiche del golfo e del lungomare. Castel dell'Ovo. Il quartiere moderno di Santa Luc...
Indagine sulla situazione della scuola in Italia, partendo dal presupposto che “il livello della democrazia di un paese si misura sul grado di importanza che viene dato al problema della scuol...
Le “camere magiche” sono quelle in cui operano alcuni artigiani. Inizia con panoramiche su stradine di Roma (anche se la città non viene nominata), che si alternano a riprese nelle botteghe...
Le varie fasi della preparazione e stampa di un giornale, seguendo l'iter dal momento in cui la notizia di cronaca viene comunicata in redazione per telescrivente sino all'uscita del giornale ne...
Color footage of the lagoon of Venice. Film restored in collaboration with Nederlands Filmmuseum.
D’estate, soprattutto nei fine settimana, le forze dell’ordine sono impegnate a fronteggiare alcune criticità causate dal pendolarismo turistico. Suona un allarme: carabinieri si precipitan...
Una delle prime possibilità che si aprono grazie al cinema è quella di mettere in scena un processo produttivo. In anni nei quali il progresso passa attraverso la meccanica, l'industria, la mo...
Film di genere “fantastico”, tratto da Le diable boiteux di Alain-René Lesage, ambientato in una Spagna fantasiosamente ricostruita, rimarchevole per l’uso accorto di una grande quantità...
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.
Documentary about urbanism and aesthetics in architecture. This film is a part of the trilogy 'Urbanisme'.
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
VICTORY - GOD BLESS THE BRITISH ARMY THAT HAS SAVED OUR HOMES AND OUR ALL!: Stock footage of mortar launcher, bi-plane, and tanks. AND OUR INDOMITABLE SONS OF THE SEA WHO HAVE SAVED US AND OUR ALLIES ...
Just outside the old city walls of Rome, we find a mass of washed-out houses and bumpy streets arranged in a geometrical pattern that makes them anonymous and depersonalized. The documentary fil...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
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.