John Grierson introduces a television show featuring a selection of films, including a Sumatra candle dance; a dramatic Japanese film of animal predation; and an appreciation of Greek sculpture.
(Reel 1) The setting is a large tank park with a training ground next to it. This has a number of artificial obstacles, water-filled craters and steep banks. The tanks are unmarked except for serial n...
Kafka is agonising over the first sentence of what was to be his masterpiece, Metamorphosis. ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning he found himself transformed into a gigantic...?’ Kafka looks around...
The casualties occur in a forward trench in 51st (Highland) Division sector between Roclincourt and Neuville Saint Vaast. An RAMC captain bandages the head of one man, who with other walking wounded a...
La Marchesa Teresa di Fontenay si innamora di Jean Guery, un giovane giornalista; divorzia da suo marito, il vecchio Fontenay e spera di potersi sposare con il suo amato, ma lo scoppio della riv...
Gustavo Panelli è innamorato di Francesca, sorella di un tenente e figlia del generale Barbaresco, il quale non consentirà mai a darla in sposa ad un borghese. Gustavo allora si arruola nell'e...
The young hothead Billy is drifting into a life of crime and has a violent quarrel with his girlfriend Nelly. The lay preacher John Redmond tells Billy his life's story. Many years before, he was a we...
I. 'OBSEQUIES OF THE KING'S UNCLE. Prince Christian buried with full military honours in St. George's Chapel Windsor.' HA as military band (men of the 2nd Life Guards and Coldstream Guards) approaches...