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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On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
Interview with a General Inspectorate of Theatre official who traces a sorry state of affairs of Portuguese film.
Notes on a film produced by Portugal Film Propaganda documenting the scaling of a building in Lisbon.
News on the creation of a new film company.
News report on the director’s return to Lisbon after a trip to make a film on rabies.
Article supporting the state intervention in order to develop the Portuguese film industry
Advertisement for the company’s services, dedicated to documentary and propaganda films.