Made for screening at the 1925 World Educational Congress Edinburgh, the film gives a survey of the educational opportunities offered in Edinburgh from infants up to senior pupils.
Aberdeen High School for Girls - from the first day of infant class to prize-giving for senior pupils leaving school. All aspects of learning are recorded, with emphasis on drama, music and dance.
I. RAMC men help refugees in a street in Douai to load both themselves and their belongings into a British Army lorry. As the last one is loaded the tailboard is closed up and the people wave as the l...
In 1968 Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay founded the band Can in Cologne, which cultivated an avant-garde style somewhere between free jazz and funk, krautrock and psychedelic rock, and also experiment...
Trip from Oban to Staffa and Iona, visiting the tourist sites. [Accompanied by voiceover and classical music]
Craigbank Gardens, Edinburgh. The film has extensive footage of allotments, vegetable gardens and people tending the crops. Portree Horticultural Show also features towards the end of the film.
In a decayed Scottish fishing village, an outcast boy strikes up a friendship with a fisherman who believes himself to be Zorba.
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...
Maartje Pasman, Enrique Fiss in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Enrique Fiss, Benny Techen (left to right) in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
"Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Swetlana Alexjewitsch in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Natasja Juul in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Joseph Vogl in "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Enrique Fissin "Near and Elsewhere" (2018)
Si ricostruisce la vita di Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (1835-1914), nominato papa nel 1903, attraverso fotografie e immagini dei luoghi in cui visse. La prima parte è dedicata a Riese, in provinc...
Robinet corteggia una fanciulla che sta tirando le reti a riva. Il padre della fanciulla pretende però che la figlia si metta con un pescatore, quindi Robinet si traveste e intraprende la profe...
"Difficoltà d'ogni genere si opponevano alla riproduzione cinematografica della vita degli animali marini, dovute anche alla piccolezza di questi esseri, altre alla loro straordinaria trasparen...
1892 - 1972: ottant'anni di storia del Partito Socialista Italiano, attraverso un percorso, costruito attraverso immagini di repertorio, che narra i cambiamenti della società italiana, gli even...
Film restored in collaboration with Cinémathèque Française.
La Romagna, tra Ravenna e Ferrara, diventa una sconfinata distesa di paludi, acqua stagna, pozze e valli incolte. Questo è il paese della fame, delle zanzare: la gente che vi abita mangia polen...
Un viaggio tra le province di Viterbo e Roma alla scoperta dei luoghi in cui d’estate si eseguono concerti di musica classica, sulle note del poema sinfonico I pini di Roma di Ottorino Respigh...
Road movie loosely based on the fairy tale "Hans im Glück": When Hans is fired from his office job, he isn’t frustrated at all but instead sees new opportunities. He wants to use his free time to t...