Mary is in love with a young farmer, who goes abroad to earn money. During his absence, Mary's family is assailed by disease and poverty. Since she has not heard from her beloved for a long time, she ...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...
Australian soldiers, probably of 5th Division, at the south end of the Saint Quentin tunnel at Bellicourt. A temporary bridge has been built just below the tunnel entrance. A view, from on top of the ...
Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
Le service d'hygiène du comité américain a attiré l'attention des autorités médicales et des milieux parlementaires sur l'état d'hygiène sociale de l'enfance du département sinistré de l'Ais...
SPCA inspects farm and transport of livestock, and shows the care of both working animals and pets. Also outlines SPCA's role in rehoming animals, and in educating children about pet care.
I Sydafrika berører religion alle dele af samfundet. Med tusinder af mennesker, der dør af aids, er religionerne i dag konfronteret med en virkelighed, som rækker ud over deres verdenssyn. Filmen g...
A pickpocket acts as an inept golfer. Helpful souls become robbed. A female pickpocket turns up. The two pickpockets pick the golfers pockets. But they become disclosed. They try to escape and shoot a...
En skildring af to engelske kvinders oplevelser i Indien med 60 års mellemrum. Den første kvindeskæbne - skildres i en handling udspillet i 1923, hvor en engelsk kvinde møder og forføres af en in...
Om to vagtværnsfolk der undrer sig over at alle de steder hvor de bliver udstationeret bliver plyndret af tyve. Da de prøver at undersøge sagerne ender de med at have både forbrydere, politiet og ...
A dance involving a bucket and a mane of hair.
La pittura naif di Gino Covili, che ha dedicato la sua arte alla gente e al lavoro dell’Appennino modenese. Immagini documentarie vengono accostate ai quadri, restituendoci la poetica dell’a...
L’arte di Raffaele Viviani viene riproposta attraverso fotografie di Viviani stesso e dei suoi spettacoli, fotografie della Napoli di fine Ottocento, immagini della sua casa. Ma soprattutto, n...
Una donna fa il bucato e lava i piatti, la voce di commento fa notare come le faccende domestiche mettano le mani a dura prova. In un laboratorio (sull’insegna si legge “SCAD – Specialità...
[Bologna vs. Napoli football match, 17 December 1972] 17 December 1972. The gates of the Dall’Ara Stadium in Bologna before the Bologna vs. Napoli football match. Fans on the terraces. Footage from ...
Half a century of history on the pages of the famous comic magazine “Il corriere dei piccoli”.
Queste manovre si sono svolte tra l'isola della Sardegna - più precisamente il Golfo di Aranci, dove il nemico aveva collocato la base delle sue operazioni - e Genova, che è stata bombardata. ...
Materiale frammentario dai diversi fronti su cui si combatté la Prima Guerra Mondiale, in particolare immagini di: soldati italiani (la salita al monte Cimone, la liberazione di Gorizia, operaz...
Film restored in collaboration with Cinémathèque de Toulouse.