Das Tonbild zeigt die Arie "La donna è mobile" (deutsch: "Ach, wie so trügerisch") aus dem dritten Akt von Guiseppe Verdis Oper "Rigoletto". Tonbild ist eine Bezeichnung für frühe Kinofilme mit Sy...
Einer uralten Tradition folgend, muss der 13-jährige Finne Oskari eine Nacht alleine in der Wildnis der finnischen Berge verbringen und dabei mit seinem Bogen ein Tier erlegen. Als jedoch das Flugzeu...
Onkel Boonmee kehrt nach einem akuten Nierenversagen zurück aufs Land und in den Kreis seiner Familie, um dort die Zeit zu verbringen, die ihm noch bleibt. Seine Schwester, ein junger Verwandter und ...
Es läuft nicht gut für den armen Rodolfo: In seiner Wohnung fühlt er sich so unwohl und so wenig zuhause, dass nicht einmal mehr seine Freundin ihn dort besucht; und seine Freunde von der Fußballm...
In mehreren miteinander verwobenen Episoden erzählt die Komödie von den Irrungen, Wirrungen und Absurditäten der Liebe. Was darüber hinaus sämtliche Geschichten eint, sind die Darsteller: Katja R...
Der Film erzählt, inspiriert von den Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht, eine Vielzahl alltäglicher Situationen, die immer wieder mit historischen Ereignissen verwoben werden. Da bindet ein Vater seiner Toc...
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...
An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
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 ...
From 1891 to 1945, a popular form of iconography thrived next to the official one documenting Italy’s political and social life. This alternative iconography can be found in humorous and satir...
Barbarians outside: yesterday as today. Who have centuries of civilization gone by for? Not even appearance has altered the Norman in his barbarism. This great work from the Ambrosio hotbed admi...
Newsreel item on snow conditions in Flanders, showing the cameraman's car stuck in a snowdrift, and soldiers having a snowball fight, Western Front, January 1918.
Short newsreel item on Venice during the First World War, focusing in particular on Venice's canal network, used to transport men and munitions.
The regiments are as follows. The Civil Service Rifles (a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers). The London Scottish (1/14th Battalion, the London Regiment). Pipers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlander...
News items West Flanders. Amongst others, a visit by King Baudouin to Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, laying wreaths at the statue of his grandfather King Albert I, shaking hands with veterans and speakin...
Five reels of stockshots of the Western Front, with no apparent theme or linking sequence. The majority of the material for all but the final reel comes from IWM 191 BATTLE OF THE SOMME. The majority ...
On the staging and filming of a party on the allied armies in the WWI.
Panoramic shot over Santiago de Compostela. A crowd in the streets attends a procession followed by a parade of men with hats, women with veils, people with masks and music bands.
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will wast...