Comprehensive documentary film about the coal industry in the colamines of S. Pedro da Cova (north of Portugal).
Film on the city of Viseu and its several touristic spots: churches, monuments, forts, 15th and 16th century houses, palaces, hotels, ancient and modern streets and avenues, parks and bridges.
In a fire drill, a phone call alerts the firefighters to a fire in a block of flats. In the barrack, firefighters go to their vehicles to fight it and perform a rescue.
Cats. Several meanings: a profession (those who repair broken tableware), a funeral car, a thief.
Portrayal of a hunting in the Mossamedes Desert: a hiena, springboks, zebras.
Aspects of the day-to-day work in Oporto.
Melon growing in the region of Ribatejo. The Palha Branco variety. Its growing, consumption, packaging, transportation and exportation. Views of Vila Franca de Xira, harbour and boats.
The exteriors of the studios of the Oporto-based film company, Invicta Film.
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Film frame of Arthur Costa de Macedo's 'Homenagens aos soldados desconhecidos' ('Tribute to Unknown Soldiers'), 1921.
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portrait
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Notes on the work of film director José Branco Gomes Barata.
Notes on the team work; set still of Fernandez Tomaz.
A letter to the periodical on the authorship of the film «Angola» (1930).
Criticism on the weaknesses of the Portuguese documentary films included by law in every cinema-shows.
On the film potential in the domain of tourism. An incentive for that type of film.
On some weaknesses of the protection law stipulating the inclusion of 100 m footage of Portuguese documentary films in commercial scéances.
Notes on the first film exhibitions in Portugal and on Portuguese early films.
Notes on the huge development of documentary film, namely in Germany.