Toni è un anziano che vive alla casa di riposo “Opere Pie Raggruppate” di Vittorio Veneto (Treviso). Ogni notte ha un incubo: i corvi lo assaltano e gli beccano il viso, lui rimane impietri...
Un breve filmato presumibilmente girato nei primissimi anni dell'Ottocento, con colorazione a pochoir: incantevoli tulipani che si animano davanti ai nostri occhi, con la complicità della macch...
Alle Terme di Caracalla si mette in scena l’Aida di Verdi e il film documenta i preparativi dietro le quinte: allestimento delle scenografie, truccatori e parrucchieri al lavoro, comparse in c...
La città pugliese di Manduria (provincia di Taranto) ha una storia antica, le sue origini risalgono al V secolo a. C. e sono collegate all’antico popolo dei Messapi: diversi oggetti, come cer...
Riprese amatoriali di un raduno fascista, presumibilmente realizzate fra il 1940 e il 1942 a Milano: la città è attraversata dalle camicie nere, da giovani balilla e dalla popolazione con nume...
I professionisti del cinema, con una conferenza stampa, lanciano un appello per salvare il cinema italiano, chiedono una riforma della cinematografia e la regolamentazione della trasmissione di ...
Breve inchiesta sulla situazione del cinema italiano, mentre entra in Parlamento la nuova legge di riforma sulla cinematografia. Nicola Signorello, ministro del turismo e dello spettacolo, parla...
Inchiesta sulla riforma del codice civile e sul disegno di legge sul riordinamento della famiglia (con novità riguardo la comunione dei beni e la parità tra i coniugi), introdotta da una serie...
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...
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...
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...
i. AMERICAN MISSION IN LIVERPOOL AND LONDON. DR PAGE WITH DELEGATES WHO WILL TELL U.S. OF OUR WAR WORK. U.S. Ambassador W.H. Page and his group embark from ship in Liverpool. They talk with women work...
Short reportage about seaplanes, stationed on an aircraft carrier. On the ship the seaplanes are repaired and getting ready. The seaplane is being lifted on board and takes off. Subsequently aerial sh...
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.
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.