In den Townships von Kapstadt ist Elend Alltag. Wer hier aufwächst hat kaum eine Chance Arbeitslosigkeit, Hunger und Kriminalität zu entgehen. Die inzwischen verstorbene Ballerina Phyllis Spira und ...
Filmbiografie des britischen Sportlers Michael "Eddie" Edwards, der 1988 als erster Skispringer für Großbritannien bei Olympischen Winterspielen an den Start ging. Sein Leben lang träumt Edwards da...
Seit nun schon zehn Jahren lebt das Sams bei der Familie Taschenbier, und diese Gemeinschaft könnte gar nicht schöner sein. Wäre da nicht der Umstand, dass man selbst immer mehr zu einem Sams wird,...
Videobotschaft zu "The Party" ("Der Partyschreck", USA 1968) anlässlich der "Carte Blanche"-Reihe von Ulrich Matthes im DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main im März 2022
Newsreel about a group of youngsters flying over Brussels and the World's Fair.
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.
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
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 ...
The Danish film journal FILMEN was published in the period 1912-1919 (24 issues per year). First published under the name "A/S Kinografen", then from 1913 under the name "Association of Cinema Theatre...
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 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...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
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...