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...
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...
Various news items about the First World War, compiled for home projection. Optimism and emphasis on international collaboration, remains preserved and the more gruesome or embarrassing war images wer...
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...
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...
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.
Documentario dedicato al poeta e scrittore Aldo Palazzeschi. Una voce fuori campo recita alcune poesie di Palazzeschi mentre alcuni mimi si muovono su un palco. Attraverso foto d'epoca (tra cui ...
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
Nel quartiere romano di San Lorenzo (compreso fra Porta Tiburtina e Viale dello Scalo San Lorenzo) si trovano la Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le mura e il Cimitero del Verano: a metà Ottocento...
'ALLENBY WANTED IN CAIRO: Conqueror of Palestine who was called to Peace Conference in Paris and had to rush back to Cairo'. Brief close-up of Allenby, in uniform, posing for the camera.
Short fr...
Unedited footage. Incomplet. The departure of the Infantry Regiment of Chaves’ towards the train station to depart to Lisbon and further embarkment to Angola.
The emperor is taking a stroll on the promenade deck of "Hohenzollern" with consul Mohr and captain Graf von Platen. The consul receives an order from the emperor.
This newsreel consists of 6 parts, showing soldiers training, ruins, life in the trenches, and German prioners of war in a camp in Brittany.
Whaling ship outside the coast of Norway brings whales to the whalery. We see work processes at the whaleries in Bergen and other places.
A common motto of the three friends before leaving for the front: "The world must protect democracy and small nations against "boots" of Prussian militarism!"
A message of Tomeš (farmer) to his friends after homecoming from the front and establishing of the independent Czechoslovak Republic: "None of us wants war! But woe to anyone who wants to hurt Czecho...
Short travelogue about-among other subjects-the palace of Monaco, the visit to a village (Corbio) and the Italian border, with shots of the sea.