As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
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...
Crime drama about the rivalry between two men regarding a new invention and a cute girl.
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...
Reportage about Austrian war ships and submarines. Images of life on board of the ship 'Tegetthof', navigation (with log and sextant), signals with flags, a torpedo boat flottilla at full speed and t...
Napoleon is called up to the army, and says goodbye to Sally, and to the people in the film studio. He leaves. But Sally quickly chases after him, and together they arrive at "Fort Skiddoo". The chaot...
A German officer addresses his men in a dugout. They emerge from the dugout and man their trench against an Australian attack. The Australians storm the trench and throw grenades down into the dugouts...
The film appears to be of the intervention in North Russia, but varies in quality from slightly out of focus to completely blurred.
Blurred and unviewable film of the British intervention in Nort...
French language version of a newsreel item on the town of Amiens after the German failure to capture it, showing a pan over the town and the outside of the cathedral, Western Front, 5th-7th April 1918...
Presentation of the activities of Winter Aid in Belgium. Winter Aid was the national-socialist organisation that took over all social assistance works, as they were exercised by government and church,...
Reportage about the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Germany and Prince Ernst Augustus of Cumberland.
Baldevin and Simen become friends while at sea, only to go their separate ways. Many years later, Simen is married to a wealthy widow. When Baldevin arrives in town, Simen seeks to ensure his friend's...
L'architettura di Vienna, con edifici costruiti secondo gli stili più diversi, testimonia il passato glorioso di questa città un tempo capitale di un impero. Lungo la Ringstrasse, l'anello str...
Il movimento Liberty (noto anche come Art Nouveau) è ripercorso attraverso alcune delle sue varie manifestazioni: pagine della rivista “Jugen” (che diede il nome alla corrente tedesca dello...
Tre luoghi caratteristici di Trieste e dintorni: il Carso, la città Teresiana e il molo San Carlo, così come li hanno descritti nelle loro opere tre noti scrittori triestini: Scipio Slataper, ...
Celebrazioni per l’annessione di Fiume (oggi Rijeka in Croazia) all’Italia, precedute da immagini della città vista dal mare e del porto solcato da navi da guerra. Il Generale Grazioli, gov...
In montagna, davanti a un monumento ai caduti, si svolge una cerimonia degli alpini in cui le reclute (i “bocia”) rendono omaggio ai “veci” (reduci e caduti della prima guerra mondiale)....
Un maestro legge ai suoi allievi, seduti sotto i ponti della valle di Maddaloni (Caserta), alcuni passi tratti dalle “Noterelle d'uno dei Mille” di Giuseppe Cesare Abba. Quindi, attraverso m...
Documentary about the town of Amerongen 'Amerongen: a previously unknown Dutch village, but since 1919 ... a famous royal resort'. With this text, filmmaker Willy Mullens begins this short promotional...