Only the brake-wheel can be seen of the train, and for part of the time a lance-corporal brakeman with his back to the camera. The track moves through the rubble, clay and destroyed villages of the ar...
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 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...
The film is constructed on a contemporary requirement tied to the wartime situation, seeing as Italy had gone to war with Austria in May 1915. At the end of the wedding ceremony the procession o...
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...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Infanterie, Munitionskolonnen und Tross auf dem Marsch zur Front; Rast auf Straßen und in Dörfern in Nordfrankreich; Abwehr eines feindlichen Infanterieangriffs; deutscher Stoßtrupp geht gegen fein...
A message of Tomeš (farmer) to his friends after homecoming from the front and establishing of the independent Czechoslovak Republic: "None of us wants war! But woe to anyone who wants to hurt Czecho...
Ambitious spanish-french co-production (costed one million pesetas in those years) based on the life of Christopher Columbus.
Between 28-30 December 1917, Padua suffered three air raids by Austrian aircraft. After the first, The Times of London reported:"December 29. : Yesterday evening at 9 p.m. enemy airmen, true to their...
I. A long sequence of 2/4th Battalion, the Dorset Regiment, with its band leading, marching into Bethlehem (poor quality film). II. Allenby's visit to Bethlehem, 25 December 1917. He can be seen among...
01 - Estero Rotative di giornali e titoli sugli avvenimenti che stanno sconvolgendo l’Europa dell’est: in Polonia la rivolta degli studenti contro il regime, in Cecoslovacchia le dimissioni ...
Little Momi’s father has left to be a soldier and his letters are eagerly anticipated by his family at home. In one of them he recounts the adventure of little highlander Berto, who saved his mother...
The film opens with an unrelated scene of Australian troops exploding a shell or mine in a training exercise. 1st Spahi Cavalry Regiment 'charges' the camera. One of the men demonstrates steadiness by...
Dans Paris en 1917, des cavaliers défilent dans les rues, une famille suit le cercueil d'un proche, les parisiens enterrent M. Liard et un soldat pose devant un foyer.
Daily production report No. 8, 19 October 1961 on the shooting "Auf Wiedersehn".
Synopsis of "Liebe" (Working title: "Vor Rehen wird gewarnt").
Daily production report No. 26, 18 May 1956 on the shooting of "Der erste Frühlingstag".
Daily production report No. 2, 24 June 1959 on the shooting of "Melodie und Rhythmus".
Laya Films news report produced during the Spanish Civil War. We see the finishing touches being added to the statue of the painter Marià Fortuny in a sculptor's workshop. The scale model is then sho...
In front of a country church, women clad in Setesdal bunads (traditional Norwegian folk costumes) display their fine silver accessories. Silversmith Knut Sigurdsøn Helle, of Hylestad in Setesdal, is ...