I fabrikant Grøndahls villa bor den unge smukke og forældreløse Amalie. Alt for tidligt er hendes elskede forældre døde. Amalies eneste beskytter er nu Grøndahl, der også sørger for opdragelse...
Evelyn Milton debuterer som danserinde på Empire-teatret. Hun er endnu kun en nyudsprungen blomst, et 17 års barn, der er ganske uvidende om livet mellem kulisserne med alle dets intriger. Derfor sn...
Det er mørke tider i Middelalderens England - kongeriget savner en klog og stærk mand til at indtage tronen, men alt dette er den forældreløse dreng, Arthur, lykkeligt uvidende om. Det er dog kun ...
Efter en kort indføring i den politiske baggrund redegøres for Dannevirkestillingens betydning militært og politisk. Man følger de menige troppers vanskeligheder i stillingen, slaget ved Mysunde o...
"En filmkavalkade baseret på arkivmateriale over røde kors tanken og organisationens humanitære hjælpearbejde fra 1. verdenskrig til i dag". Filmen trækker på en række andre Røde Kors film, hv...
De fleste ville betragte Zohan som en lykkelig mand. Han har succes hos pigerne. Han er beundret af mændene. Han er frygtet af terrorister alle vegne som den bedste israelske agent nogensinde. Men i ...
En nat om året, fra syv aften til syv morgen, er alle regler ophævet. Loven er sat ud af kraft, politiet holder sig væk, hospitalerne er lukkede. Men regnskaberne kan gøres op og uheldige elemente...
Grevinde de la Garde ligger på sit dødsleje. Da rejser hun sig - hendes blik er stift rettet mod det gamle chatol - hun vakler fra sengen henimod det. Men inden hun når sit mål, falder hun om og d...
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...
A camel train approaches and enters the city. A panorama of the city taken from the sea. Tiffin (compressed camel or horse fodder) being unloaded from ships lying out to sea by surf boats. The men wor...
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 ...
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 Royal Engineers sergeant shows how to load two carrier pigeons into a small wicker basket for transport. At the Rosyth seaplane base Felixstowe F2A flying boats and Short 184 seaplanes ride at ancho...
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...
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.
An unidentified news report about various aspects of the First World War. Great emphasis is being placed on the British Army and the recruitment of soldiers.
The film reconstructs the repulse of a German column charge by British rifle and field artillery fire in the centre of the battlefield, and then the defence of Nimy bridge on the left by 4th Royal Fus...
Animation film by Dusan Vukotic, one of the major Croatian animators and co-founder of Zagreb Film. A charming story about an old magician and all sorts of magic creatures that end up in the world of ...
Ralph and Edith Norton, two Protestant missionaries from Philadelphia, came to Britain for a period of three years to provide assistance to refugees and wounded Belgian soldiers from the war zone. Mon...
Subtitled "The work of the Department of the Director General Voluntary Organisations including the Camps Library". Introductory shot of the Director General Sir Edward Ward seated in his office in Sc...