Unedited footage. The footage depicts a release of bulls in the streets, which are then fight by several horsemen and bull herdsmen as a test to their fierceness ('tenta') in an open land in Vila Nova...
One of the earliest Portuguese films, by Aurélio da Paz dos Reis, frequently refered to as the first portuguese film director, shows the stunts of a trapeze artist in a garden.
Images on the arrival in Lisbon of the German Emperor Wilhelm II for an official visit.
Documentary film of the South Atlantic aerial crossing, from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922.
Touristic sites of the Graça area, in Lisbon: churches (Penha de França, S. Vicente de Fora, Graça), Flea market, J. de Castilho bust and Estrela d'Ouro neighbourhood.
Views of several locations in the North of Portugal: Melgaço and Viana do Castelo, the Senhora da Agonia Festivities, Lamego, the river Vouga railway line, the river Leça, Oporto and Gaia.
Amateur film; unedited footage. Images of the North of Portugal: a traditional parade, a horse show, a train on the banks of the Douro river, washerwomen, oxen carts, villagers and sheperds.
The monuments and landscapes visited by the group excursion.
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Portrait of the film director
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Notes on the need of a law enforcing the protection of the Portuguese film industry.
Short note on the inexistance of Portuguese legislation on film industry.
A foretaste of Portuguese cinema's success in the year of 1930.
Notes on the educational potential of film.
On the potentials of sound film for the recording of Portugal’s oral traditions.
A protest on the fragmentation of a film about Angola as a way for exhibitors to enforcing the law.
Notes on a group of documentary films and on documentary cinema in general.