Documentary about the ceremony of laying the first stone of the sugar refinery in Casalmaggiore (province of Cremona).
Una comica che vede come protagonista una delle rare eroine della risata al femminile dell’epoca del muto. Il postino porta a casa di Robinetta un biglietto, ma prima di consegnarlo lo legge e...
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 Filippo De Pisis, poeta, scrittore e pittore. Il film è scandito dalla lettura di passi scritti da De Pisis, con immagini evocative spesso associate a suoi dipinti. Inizio a Villa Fio...
La ricerca dell'uomo per combattere il male. Per introdurre il tema, si fa ricorso alle figure di Franz Anton Mesmer (che inconsapevolmente guariva con l’ipnosi e non con il proprio fluido mag...
Frammento non identificato, girato presumibilmente nel Golfo di Napoli: varie barche a remi sono imbandierate a festa, ed ospitano persone che tengono in mano piccoli rami. Restaurato a partire ...
Frammento non identificato: al tramonto, una barca entra in porto. Restaurato a partire da una copia d’epoca appartenente al fondo Fausto Correra.
San Pietroburgo. Esercitazioni dei pompieri e sfilata per le strade. Pompieri escono di corsa dalla caserma. Attaccano i cavalli ai carretti e percorrono ampie vie cittadine. Salgono con scale s...
Romantic adventure film in which Betty, who dreams about pirates, and her father, a gullible professor, are tricked by a bunch of real pirates. They are rescued by a young man who has a crush on Betty...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
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...
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
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 assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
British and Belgian troops on dockside at Ostend. "Trekking To Safety - British and Belgian troops watch the departure of the refugees from Ostend" - one shot only after this title.
Documentary about gold extraction methods in the Aruwimi River area. All the various stages are illustrated. Rivers and rocks are first explored and then drilled. Once raw materials are sorted accordi...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
I. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on the city and cathedral at Amiens after the German failure to capture the city, 5th-7th April 1918. II. Spanish language version of a newsreel item on ...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.