Riflessioni sulla città contemporanea, attraverso citazioni da José Ortega y Gasset, Oswald Spengler e Frank Lloyd Wright e immagini di Roma (in particolare il quartiere dell’EUR, cantieri i...
Toni è un anziano che vive alla casa di riposo “Opere Pie Raggruppate” di Vittorio Veneto (Treviso). Ogni notte ha un incubo: i corvi lo assaltano e gli beccano il viso, lui rimane impietri...
Un breve filmato presumibilmente girato nei primissimi anni dell'Ottocento, con colorazione a pochoir: incantevoli tulipani che si animano davanti ai nostri occhi, con la complicità della macch...
Alle Terme di Caracalla si mette in scena l’Aida di Verdi e il film documenta i preparativi dietro le quinte: allestimento delle scenografie, truccatori e parrucchieri al lavoro, comparse in c...
La città pugliese di Manduria (provincia di Taranto) ha una storia antica, le sue origini risalgono al V secolo a. C. e sono collegate all’antico popolo dei Messapi: diversi oggetti, come cer...
Riprese amatoriali di un raduno fascista, presumibilmente realizzate fra il 1940 e il 1942 a Milano: la città è attraversata dalle camicie nere, da giovani balilla e dalla popolazione con nume...
I professionisti del cinema, con una conferenza stampa, lanciano un appello per salvare il cinema italiano, chiedono una riforma della cinematografia e la regolamentazione della trasmissione di ...
Breve inchiesta sulla situazione del cinema italiano, mentre entra in Parlamento la nuova legge di riforma sulla cinematografia. Nicola Signorello, ministro del turismo e dello spettacolo, parla...
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
A Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
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.