The Manunal was a covering mat or carpet for the Kaa'ba outside the Great Mosque at Mecca. Very highly decorated, a new one was made in Cairo each year and transported in ceremonial procession to Port...
Not a finished film but the jumbled remains of one. It consists partly of long sections of subtitle captions without accompanying images, and staged actuality material of two soldiers using a Lewis ma...
The men, from various regiments, all go into a building marked "Entrance for Troops for Dispersal". They are checked off against a list, each handed their discharge papers (?) and issued with civilian...
The airship emerges tail first from its shed, and is steered to the take-off point by its groundcrew. The camera is some distance away and shows the full length of the airship. Very slowly it begins t...
The pilots start at a Cadet School where they are taught drill and basic skills. "The first necessity of an airman is that he must have discipline." The cadets are in various British uniforms, and inc...
The train consists of two open-sided trucks, guarded by British soldiers of the Machine Gun Corps. Four of these soldiers go up to one of the trucks, clearly marked with a Red Cross on its roof, and t...
Amateur footage from Germany, filmed in 1920: Undernourished children in a convalescent home (presumably in Berlin-Buch), medical care of children with rickets, street scenes – some of Potsdamer Pla...
Harbour scene with mountains in the background. Steam launch comes alongside towing five ship's boats crowded with ratings and marines. Local people watch as the sailors disembark. Crowds pass waterfr...
Maria Immhofen, Olaf Fønss (in the middle) in "Die Vernichtung der Menschheit" (1916)
Screenshot from "Harry wird Millionär"
Screenshot from "Harry wird Millionär"
The battle of Zborov: Austrian soldier (left) and Russian one in the Austrian trenches.
Medium close-up of Nurse Tonička (Truda Grosslichtová) and Corporal Bartoněk (Jiří Vondrovič) standing in a corridor. They are smiling at one another and she is touching his bandaged hand.
The battle of Zborov: Several soldiers in the trench with stuffy noses. One of them holds a rotten can.
Wide shot depicting the activity in front of a stopped train. Combat medics are carrying Lieutenant Rjepkin (actor: Vladimír Borský) from the train on a stretcher; Rjepkin is covered with a blanket....
After the mobilization: women hold on men and cry. On the left Janda (smith), the second one is Tomeš (farmer).
Der Zensur ist tot- es lebe die Zensur !, Der Kinematograph, 623, (1918), S. 17-18. Die Abschaffung der Zensur stelle Filmemacher vor die Frage, was derzeit erlaubt sei und was nicht. Es solle keine Z...
Kriegsanleihe-Filme, Der Kinematograph, 561, (1917), S. 14. Da "Der feldgraue Groschen" einen so durchschlagenden Erfolg hatte, seien noch weitere Filme zur Kriegsanleihe gedreht worden. "Hann, Hein u...
Argus, Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 614, (1918). "Kinder der Liebe" als Tendenz- und Aufklärungsfilm bezeichnet, dessen Absicht überzeuge. "Der Gefangene von Dahomey" se...
R. Genenchen, Kriegsunterstützung und Kinobesuch, Der Kinematograph, 506, (1916), S. 17. Bericht darüber, dass die Gemeinde Weida/Sachsen Soldatenfrauen, die Kinos besuchen, die städtische Unterst...
Neuheiten auf dem Berliner Filmmarkte, Der Kinematograph, 559, (1917), S. 12-13. Rezension des von der Bufa herausgebrachten Films über den U-Boot-Krieg.
Julius Urgiss, Hindenburg, dem Förderer der Lichtbildkunst, Der Kinematograph, 561, (1917), S. 12-13. Lob des Generalfeldmarschalls für seinen Einsatz zugunsten des Mediums Film. Hervorgehoben wird ...
Emil Perlmann, Wenn die Waffen ruhen...!, Der Kinematograph, 619, (1918). Erörterung der Lage der Filmindustrie angesichts des greifbaren Kriegsendes. Die Filmindustrie müsse den Kampf gegen die Zen...
Walter Thielemann, Der Film 1917, Der Kinematograph, 573, (1917), S. 12ff. Jahresrückblick. Positiv hervorgehoben wird die immer breitere Anerkennung, die dem Kino zuteil werde, da der immer mehr sei...