Mortimer Folchart und seine Tochter Meggie verfügen über eine besondere Gabe: Wenn sie laut aus ihren Büchern vorlesen, können sie dadurch die Figuren der Romane zu realem Leben erwecken. Allerdin...
Der junge Amerikaner Casey reist als Rucksacktourist durch Deutschland. Als seine Freundin Juliette erkrankt und Geld für eine überlebenswichtige OP benötigt, springt er als Fahrer für eine Bande ...
Im Finnland des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts lebt ein zehnjähriger, stummer Junge mit seiner allein erziehenden Mutter auf einem kleinen Hof in der Wildnis, fernab der Zivilisation. Der Vater des Jungen,...
Der alte Farmer Abga lebt mit seiner Enkelin Asida in Georgien am Fuße des Kaukasus-Gebirges. Eines Tages beschließt er, auf einer kleinen Insel auf dem Enguri-Fluss Mais anzupflanzen. Die Insel ent...
The documentary film accompanies a project by chorographer Heike Henning who invited four former professional dance performancers, who were all nearing the age of 80, to return to the stage despite th...
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
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.
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.
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...
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 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...
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...