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...
"The Retreat From Ghent - Belgian cavalry and artillery falling back on Bruges".
Newsreel about a group of youngsters flying over Brussels and the World's Fair.
Documentary about urbanism and aesthetics in architecture. This film is a part of the trilogy 'Urbanisme'.
A collection of fragments of British and Australian aviation film of the First World War period.
The Danish film journal FILMEN was published in the period 1912-1919 (24 issues per year). First published under the name "A/S Kinografen", then from 1913 under the name "Association of Cinema Theatre...
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...
La vita del filosofo Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), nell'ambito storico, politico e culturale del Risorgimento. Si comincia in notturna, tra i vicoli di Rovereto. Penetriamo nel palazzo dove nacqu...
La storia e la vita del corpo militare dei Granatieri di Sardegna, dalla loro fondazione ad oggi, diviso in due parti. Nella prima, dopo aver mostrato il Primo Reggimento Granatieri di Sardegna ...
L'opera e la vita dello scrittore Giovanni Boine (Finale Marina, 12 settembre 1887 - Porto Maurizio, 16 maggio 1917), e in particolare il suo rapporto con la religione, la sua “ferita non chiu...
La Marsica (in Abruzzo) porta ancora i segni del terremoto che la colpì nel 1915. Fotografie d’epoca di terremotati, scavi tra le macerie, cadaveri. Ritagli di giornale: si nominano Valle del...
Australian troops practising bomb (hand grenade) throwing from slit trenches. The explosions are filmed at various angles and distances. The 'cup final' of 7th (Meerut) Division football championships...
Views of Baghdad and Babylon in Mesopotamia and of Baalbec on the Palestine Front, 1918.
Un maestro in classe mostra un mappamondo ai suoi alunni, introducendo una carrellata di eventi che, dai tempi dell'antica Grecia in poi, hanno portato all'unità dell'Europa. Le origini del con...
Giacomo Arnaldi è il sensale dell'usuraio Isacco duro ed impassibile. Egli nutre per la figlia Giulietta una vera adorazione. Il destino vuole che la ragazza s'innamori d'un cliente di suo padr...