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...
The workforce is mainly women working at benches or on production lines. They test rubber mouthpieces for leaks with a probe. They test the expiratory valves in the same manner. The corrugated tubes a...
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 ...
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...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
Animation film by Dusan Vukotic, one of the major Croatian animators and co-founder of Zagreb Film. A charming story about an old magician and all sorts of magic creatures that end up in the world of ...
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.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
Romantic film in which a couple who have been together for fifty years reminisce about the time they first met. Jack Stevens informs the couple Philippe and Maud Perkins, who are celebrating their f...
At Castle "De Werve", debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken's daughter and her husband John Mordaunt await the birth of a child. Mordaunt's aunt has promised that if it is a son named after her late husband...
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...
From private wedding festivities at a wooden villa in the city of Fredikstad.
A commercial for Rex Margarine with the Greek philosopher Diogenes as the main character.
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
The past recaptured by Aldo Palazzeschi. The moody and sardonic spirit of his early youth, ironic comments about experiences with "crepuscolarism" and "futurism". His poetry carefully captures w...
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
Short film in which a child is playing with soldier puppets and falls asleep. In the following dream the puppets come to life, through animation.
Suzanne and the prince of Sylvania fall in love with each other, but this is forbidden. Suzanne is thrown out of the house, gives birth to an illegitimate child, goes mad and dies before she can see h...
The farmer's daughter and her young man spend idyllic moments in the countryside, riding in a buggy and then rowing on the lake. The girl plucks a daisy: "He loves me, he loves me not..." but of cours...
First lead role for the gentle giant Maciste (original name Bartolomeo Pagano), who stole the scene to the leaders and the princesses in "Cabiria". The period and the location are different, but not t...
From the celebration of the Norwegian national day, the 17th of May, in the capital Kristiania, later named Oslo. The day is celebrated traditionally with choral singing, brass bands and children's ...
A British film recording the visit of King George V, accompanied by his son Prince Albert (later George VI), on a tour inspection of several British battleships in an unnamed location (possibly ...
A patriotic film tinged with humor and sentimentalism. Stock footage (the crowded town, the departure of warships) and reconstructed war scenes in the desert are part of the second half about th...
Near the bridges of Valle di Maddaloni (near Caserta), a teacher reads an excerpt from G.C. Abba’s “Noterelle di uno dei Mille” to a group of children. The excerpt is about the battle of t...