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...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
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...
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 ...
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...
The first Norwegian film with international ambitions, Thin Ice is a story of young love, corporate ambition, and a daring nighttime caper. Tom, a strapping young student, gets his dream job as an adv...
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.
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 shows a gathering in the city of Lillehammer in Norway by farmers from Gudbrandsdalen. We also visit several places in Gudbrandsdalen before returning to the farmers' association's gathering ...
I. Newsreel item on a long mule train, with Indian Army drivers, in the deserts of Palestine, late 1917.II. Brief newsreel item on a long line of limbers and GS wagons making their way forward down a ...
Documentary about the annual kermis and cattle-market in Anderlecht.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
I. French language version of a newsreel item on British soldiers chasing and catching turkeys for Christmas at a French farm while the farmer's wife watches, December 1917. II. French language versio...
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...
The fight between the German submarine U-139 and the patrol Augusto de Castilho (former trawler converted in warship) in October 14th, 1918. Images taken from the submarine.
The film depicts an event of fundraising in Lisbon for widows and orphans of the combatants in the WW I.
Repatriation of remains to Portugal, attended by Marshal Joffre, Allied Armies’ Officers and military detachments. Parade in Lisbon, arrival in Batalha, views of Leiria
31st January celebrations and military parade. 5th October military parade. Armistice in Oporto. WW I memorial.
International newsreel. Most of the content is news about the war, and especially about the serbs. We also see American nurses on their way to the front. There are also some sportscasts.
The film shows May Day parades and other arrangments under the auspices of the labour movement in Norway.
Le esercitazioni dei Corazzieri italiani: dalle sfilate in tenuta di gran gala, alle marce, ad una spettacolare cavalcata ad ostacoli con le spade sguainate, fino alla scorta della carrozza scop...
Questo documentario, girato da Capra tra il 6 e il 29 novembre del 1921, mostra l’incrociatore da guerra italiano Libia, “in visita” nel porto di San Francisco. I marinai italiani sono acc...