Portrayal of 3 companies from the North of Portugal: jewellery making, fish canning industry, meat factory.
Incomplet. Bull herdsmen on horseback control herds of cows and bulls. Theyr prepare them to bullfights, stimulating their fierceness, train them in a ring and brand them in an ox-stall.
Incomplet. The architectural heritage, mainly of religious nature, and the industrial and commercial aspects of Barreiro.
The quarries of Pero Pinheiro, Sintra. Views of the work in the quarry and its facilities.
Unedited footage. The footage depicts a release of bulls in the streets, which are then fight by several horsemen and bull herdsmen as a test to their fierceness ('tenta') in an open land in Vila Nova...
One of the earliest Portuguese films, by Aurélio da Paz dos Reis, frequently refered to as the first portuguese film director, shows the stunts of a trapeze artist in a garden.
Documentary film of the South Atlantic aerial crossing, from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral in 1922.
Touristic sites of the Graça area, in Lisbon: churches (Penha de França, S. Vicente de Fora, Graça), Flea market, J. de Castilho bust and Estrela d'Ouro neighbourhood.
Film frame.
Film frame.
Portrait of the film director
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Film frame.
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Fim poster.
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On the Law of 1927 establishing as mandatory the exhibition of a 100m Portuguese film in every theatrical screenings
Notes on the need of a law enforcing the protection of the Portuguese film industry.
Short note on the inexistance of Portuguese legislation on film industry.
A foretaste of Portuguese cinema's success in the year of 1930.
Notes on the educational potential of film.
On the potentials of sound film for the recording of Portugal’s oral traditions.
A protest on the fragmentation of a film about Angola as a way for exhibitors to enforcing the law.
Notes on a group of documentary films and on documentary cinema in general.