Images of the River Douro from Oporto to Entre-os-Rios.
The airmen visit Oporto: the entourage walks through the city and attend a children's party at Crystal Palace. Gago Coutinho steers one of the “farman” seaplanes lent by Angel Beauvalet.
“A shot of a great bustle” (in "Jornal de Notícias" - 1 Nov 1896). Fragment.
One of the earliest Portuguese films, by Aurélio da Paz dos Reis, frequently refered to as the first Portuguese film director, shows the workers of a factory on their way out.
Fragmento. One of the earliest films by Aurélio da Paz dos Reis, frequently refered to as the first Portuguese film director, shows two couples in traditional attire dancing.
Images of Figueira da Foz: streets, monuments (including a WWI Memorial), allegoric cars, procession, the beach and the vacationers, the Casino.
Images of the shearing of sheep in the autonomous region of Madeira.
Film documenting a tortuous series of cavalry exercises. It includes a harrowing sequence of horses descending steep hills and cliffs and jumping into the water. Film restored in collaboration w...
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Film poster of the first public screening of films directed by Aurélio da Paz dos Reis.
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Silvino Santos filming the Teotonio fall for the film commissioned by J. G. de Araujo from Manaus.
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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.