Unedited footage. The footage depicts a release of bulls in the streets, which are then fight by several horsemen and bull herdsmen as a test to their fierceness ('tenta') in an open land in Vila Nova...
One of the earliest Portuguese films, by Aurélio da Paz dos Reis, frequently refered to as the first portuguese film director, shows the stunts of a trapeze artist in a garden.
Images on the arrival in Lisbon of the German Emperor Wilhelm II for an official visit.
Documentary film of the South Atlantic aerial crossing, from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922.
Touristic sites of the Graça area, in Lisbon: churches (Penha de França, S. Vicente de Fora, Graça), Flea market, J. de Castilho bust and Estrela d'Ouro neighbourhood.
Views of several locations in the North of Portugal: Melgaço and Viana do Castelo, the Senhora da Agonia Festivities, Lamego, the river Vouga railway line, the river Leça, Oporto and Gaia.
Amateur film; unedited footage. Images of the North of Portugal: a traditional parade, a horse show, a train on the banks of the Douro river, washerwomen, oxen carts, villagers and sheperds.
The monuments and landscapes visited by the group excursion.
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Notes on the work of film director José Branco Gomes Barata.
Notes on the team work; set still of Fernandez Tomaz.
A letter to the periodical on the authorship of the film «Angola» (1930).
Criticism on the weaknesses of the Portuguese documentary films included by law in every cinema-shows.
On the film potential in the domain of tourism. An incentive for that type of film.
On some weaknesses of the protection law stipulating the inclusion of 100 m footage of Portuguese documentary films in commercial scéances.
Notes on the first film exhibitions in Portugal and on Portuguese early films.
Notes on the huge development of documentary film, namely in Germany.