Die junge Paula hatte den Traum von der Schauspielkarriere schon fast aufgegeben, da bekommt sie die Möglichkeit, für eine wichtige Rolle in einem Blues-Musical vorzusprechen. Bei dem Casting lernt ...
"The Expert at the Card Table" lautet der Titel eines berühmten Kartenzauberbuchs aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, das zahlreiche professionelle Kartenspieler und Magier bis heute als Quelle ihrer eigenen Tr...
Dokumentarfilm über Menschen, die sich im Namen der Schönheit operativ behandeln ließen oder aber selbst plastische Operationen durchführen. Ohne eine wertende Perspektive einzunehmen geht die Fil...
As producer, actor and filmmaker, Richard Massingham managed to combine his passion for film and medical science.
A cartoon combining drawings and live footage, in which a drawing comes to life while its author isn't there. The film's director began as a political cartoonist and in 1914 founded Bray Studios, amon...
Film used against itself, in an essay on the entanglement of mistery and religious merchandising where the kino-spirit rules instead of the kino-eye.
The assembly groups the films into episodes as follows: (Reel 1) Salonika, the voyage to Egypt, the ceremony of the drums, the aeroplane flight; (Reel 2) the horse show, scenes at a 'cactus patch' loc...
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...
Shots of London's famous buildings during the First World War.
On board of a German battleship.
Street scenes in Bethlehem, the Church of Saint Mary, the Gardens of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, the Holy Sepulchre, the Valley of Kidron and (in silhouette) a tree where, according to legend, Judas...
The curtain goes up on the cartoon to introduce the two characters. They set out on patrol from a police station. The dog sees a cat and chases it over rough ground and through a sewer pipe. The handl...
Immagini documentarie sul fronte della prima guerra mondiale: l'esercito italiano tra il Brenta e l'Adige; veduta del monte Pasubio e del Monte Cimone; si trasportano truppe e cannoni; in marcia...
I. An out-of-focus sequence of General Sir Edmund Allenby (?) reviewing a marchpast by British or Indian Cavalry of the Desert Mounted Corps, Palestine Front, 1918.II. Arab workers filling bottles and...